India has rejected an annual report released by a US panel on religious freedom as “biased and politically motivated” after it highlighted the “deteriorating” treatment of religious minorities in the ...

Netflix took down an Indian film after receiving backlash from right-wing Hindu groups. The film depicted a Brahmin woman cooking and eating meat and suggested a Hindu deity ate meat. Netflix and ...

Washington, D.C. is hosting the annual International Religious Freedom Summit this week. While religious freedom is always an ...

WASHINGTON, DC (IANS) – A US government agency on religious freedom has called for sanctions against India for “recent efforts by the Indian government to silence activists, journalists, and lawyers ...

Tension between traditional spiritual authority and political Hindutva is growing. Religious leaders feel that the government ...

Indian Hindus have often watched such brazen attacks unfold helplessly in front of them - too afraid to intervene in case they are attacked - but here was a much-needed act of resistance by someone ...

Thousands of people at a religious gathering in India rushed to leave a makeshift tent, setting off a stampede Tuesday that killed more than 100 and left scores injured, officials said. It was not ...

Vice President Kamala Harris is making a historic bid to become the nation’s first female, black, and Indian President, drawing from a well of Hindu, Jewish, and protestant influences. As the vice ...

(RNS) — At the Parliament of the World’s Religions in Chicago last week with the theme of defending human rights, several Hindu groups complained that, at an event that celebrates common ground among ...

NEW DELHI, INDIA — Perhaps the most striking first impression for any visit to India, the world’s most populous nation and most complicated democracy, is the traffic. Even in the nation’s capital the ...

LUCKNOW, India (AP) — Thousands of people at a religious gathering in India rushed to leave a makeshift tent, setting off a stampede Tuesday that killed at least 116 people and injured scores, ...