Authorities in India say more than 20 million people are expected to take part in the first major bathing day at the Hindu festival of Kumbh Mela (also known as the Mahakumbh), in the northern ...

Holding tridents, swords, spears and small two-headed drums, ash-smeared Hindu holy men marched and rode chariots at sunrise toward the confluence of the Ganges, Yamuna and mythical Saraswati ...

Holding tridents, swords, spears and small two-headed drums, ash-smeared Hindu holy men marched at sunrise toward the confluence of the Ganges, Yamuna and mythical Saraswati rivers in the northern ...

Lent begins with Ash Wednesday Mass at Thanjai Sacred Heart Cathedral, leading into 40 days of prayer and fasting.

PRAYAGRAJ, India (AP) — Tens of thousands of naked Hindu ascetics and millions of pilgrims took dips in freezing water at the confluence of sacred rivers in northern India on Tuesday, in the ...