(RNS) — US politicians are under increasing pressure to account for their courtship of Indian Prime Minister Modi, the leader of a strategically important ally and the world's largest democracy. (RNS) ...

GUDUTA, India — The ritual began with a thunderous roll of leather drums, its clamor echoing through the entire village. Women dressed in colorful saris broke into an Indigenous folk dance, tapping ...

VARANASI, India (RNS) — The Bharat Mata mandir in India’s holiest city has come to represent an ideology that many in Narendra Modi’s constituency hold — a distinctly religious allegiance to the ...

GRAND HISTORIC MASS-CONVERSION CEREMONY, proclaimed posters in a town by the Ganges. Loudspeakers blared that “many Christians tonight will perform a mass return to the religion of their souls.” Only ...

News of religious conversion and abandonment of religion keep coming in constantly. Let us tell you in which country, India or Pakistan, more religious conversions take place. Religion Conversion Rate ...

People hold signs as they gather to protest the ethnic and sexual violence against the mainly Christian Kuki-Zomi minority by the predominantly Hindu Meitei majority located in India’s northeastern ...

Exploring the deep fault lines where faith, power, and ideology collide in modern India's complex landscape, says KUMAR CHELLAPPAN Kunchan Nambiar (1705-1770), the great Malayalam poet, once wrote ...

A group of tribal Christian leaders has urged politicians to ensure the recognition of traditional tribal religion, helping tribal people specify their faith in India’s upcoming national census, ...

Demands for official recognition of the Sarna tribal religion have intensified in the eastern Indian state of Jharkhand following the federal government’s nod last month to recording citizens’ caste ...

Suki Kwon, professor of art and design, threw prayers to the wind at the 2023 Art for Change International Artist Residency in India. At the foothills of the Himalayas, Kwon, Graul Endowed Chair in ...

Garlanded and photographed, Billy Graham was cutting through India like Gabriel in a gabardine suit. In Bombay, bloody Communist-led rioting canceled his scheduled meeting; he toured the riot area ...

Women light clay lamps to celebrate Diwali, the festival of lights, at Shri Ram Chandra Ji Temple in Jaipur, India, on Oct. 24. (Vishal Bhatnagar/NurPhoto via AP) Every year, Hindus around the world ...