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At least 60 people are dead and scores are injured after a stampede at a religious gathering of thousands of people in northern India, officials said Tuesday.
At least 121 people killed in India stampede 03:20. New Delhi — At least 121 people were killed in a stampede at a religious gathering in central India's Uttar Pradesh state on Tuesday, police ...
Officials said at least 60 people were killed and more than 150 people were reportedly hospitalized during a stampede at a religious gathering in the Hathras district of Uttar Pradesh in India.
NEW DELHI (AP) — Experts worry that the latest incident could worsen India’s religious fault lines that critics say have deepened since Hindu nationalist Modi came to power in 2014.
The U.S. religious freedom watchdog on Friday again called on the Biden administration to designate India as a "country of particular concern" under the U.S. Religious Freedom Act, citing its ...
Refugees from Manipur state rest at a relief camp at Lakhipur, in the northeastern Indian state of Assam, Sunday, May 7, 2023. Credit: AP Photo/Panna Ghosh As is often the case, religion, and ...
The report expresses a number of concerns over India’s religious freedom. It highlights how religious conversion is legally prohibited in multiple states, how religious minorities are attacked ...
For nearly three centuries, Muslims and Hindus in India’s northern Varanasi city have prayed to their gods in a mosque and a temple that are separated by one wall.
At least 116 people, all but one of them women and children, were killed in a stampede at a religious event in northern India, authorities said. Hundreds of thousands of people had gathered at the ...
Washington, D.C. is hosting the annual International Religious Freedom Summit this week. While religious freedom is always an important topic, it feels even more urgent this year. All over the ...
Indian Court Orders Excavation at Religious ... March 5 -- A court today ordered archaeologists to excavate a disputed religious site to determine whether an ancient Hindu temple once existed ...