This year's Mahakumbh, the world's largest spiritual gathering, is even more significant due to a rare celestial alignment ...

Indian farmer Govind Singh travelled for nearly two days by train to reach what he believes is the "land of the gods" -- just ...

T'puram: Ahead of the Sivagiri pilgrimage beginning Monday, Southern Railway has introduced a special mainline electric multiple unit (Memu) train service. The train will operate from Ernakulam ...

Varanasi is making preparations to facilitate pilgrims visiting Kashi during the Maha Kumbh, focusing on the timely completion of facilities, hotel information display, traffic management ...

As all the business establishments in Katra town- the base camp for the Mata Vaishno Devi pilgrimage, remained completely shut, pilgrims had to face significant challenges and hardships. However, ...

He awaits all those--and there are many of them--who endure persecution for their faith," he said. On Christmas Day, pilgrims gathered in Rome to walk through the Holy Door at St. Peter's Basilica as ...

SRINAGAR: The Katra town, the base camp for pilgrims visiting the Vaishno Devi shrine, is observing 72-hour shutdown from Wednesday against the proposed ropeway project. The locals including ...

The project is seen as a modern-day parallel to the legend of Bhagirath ... This project ensures uninterrupted Ganga water flow at Sangam, where over 400 million pilgrims will take a holy dip,” said ...

begins this year on Christmas Day, which has only happened four times since 1900. Groups of pilgrims enter St Peter’s Basilica through the Holy Door a day after Pope Francis opened it for the ...

People walking through the Holy Door of St Peter’s Basilica at the Vatican (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini) Pilgrims lined up ... Judaism’s eight-day Festival of Lights, begins this year on ...

Line after line of pontoon bridges span the rivers at Prayagraj, as Indian authorities prepare for 400 million pilgrims -- more ... of an army of workers toiling day and night at a venue sprawling ...