It’s a staple in Hindu homes during festivities," said the expert. How to channel its energy: "Place a Kalash in your prayer room or use it during important ceremonies. For instance, newlyweds often ...

In the quiet town of Benoni, Dirk Mortier, is busy with his unique labour of love – designing and building Hindu prayer shrines and personalised kavadies. Mortier said his business “Shanti’s ...

“This is one of the strategies to polarise this election so that maybe the Hindu community consolidates ... India following comments made by Indian home minister Amit Shah, who, while ...

The court on Monday granted permission for the police to seize the artworks after a complaint was filed alleging that the paintings, displayed at an art gallery and featuring two Hindu deities ...

Beth Muthoni’s pilgrimage to Thiririka Shrine on January 16, in search of tranquillity and communion with her Creator through prayer, ended tragically when she was raped and murdered. When Muthoni ...

For months, Beenish turned to the Sufi shrines of Kashmir in search of solace ... which fueled widespread violence and led to the exodus of the Kashmiri Pandit (Hindu) community. Protests in 2016, ...

The sheer diversity of Hinduism and its inherent contradictions may appear baffling to an outsider. It doesn't tick any of the boxes that would define a religion if we apply the Western definition ...

PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- The nativity scene inside the National Shrine of St. John Neumann in Northern Liberties has been a fixture every Christmas season for the past several decades. Church ...

“The ease and enthusiasm with which Hindus in India were able to appropriate that term [Hinduism] shows that they already had a sense that they had this value. It’s just that the term could be applied ...

homes, livelihoods, language, culture, Kashmir and Kashmiriyat. It is not that on January 19, the whole of the Kashmiri Hindu community fled Kashmir; many stayed back in the hope that harm wouldn ...

“Ever since I can remember we’ve been going to Lake Shrine,” Nicky said. “It’s our home. It’s everything to us.” By 10 a.m. on Jan. 8, Billy had tracked the fires long enough to know ...

The elaborate shrines of Shiva and Vishnu ... the South Florida Hindu community — as diverse as it is — often gathered in a home located on the same Southwest Ranches property.