(RNS) — Sometime in the late hours of Sunday night (Aug. 10), the welcome sign to the BAPS Shri Swaminarayan Mandir, a Hindu temple near Indianapolis, was vandalized. “I was shocked that this could ...

Some Hindus believe they can break out of the cycle of rebirth if they die and are cremated in the city. Down by the Ganges River, about 100 people are cremated every day across the city. Every day, ...

Bhagwat also said that the RSS, which follows the ideology of Hindutva, does not depend on any legal or parliamentary ...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi performing Bhoomi Pujan (ground-breaking ceremony) of the Ram temple in Ayodhya, India, Aug. 5, 2020. Credit: Wikimedia Commons/Press Information Bureau-Prime Minister’s ...

INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) — Diwali celebrations are happening now. The celebration welcomes the Hindu New Year while recognizing cultural milestones. Community members say the shift we’re seeing in the ...

(RNS) — The BAPS Shri Swaminarayan Mandir of Los Angeles was found defaced with anti-Indian graffiti on Saturday (March 8), marking the 10th incident targeting an American Hindu temple since 2022.

The United Nations counts international migrants as people of any age who live outside their country (or in some cases, territory) of birth – regardless of their motives for migrating, their length of ...

Throughout this report, religious switching refers to a change between the religious group in which a person says they were raised (during their childhood) and their religious identity now (in ...

When the British withdrew from the Indian subcontinent in 1947, paving the way for the independence of the newly partitioned nations of India and Pakistan, the Muslims of the region had a choice. They ...