(RNS) — Descendants of those who experienced the Partition of Punjab in 1947 come together to share stories of interfaith collaboration after 75 years of religious animosity in India and Pakistan.

Passage of House Bills 4446-4449 does not mean that state offices would close on the Hindu holiday Diwali, the Hindu and Sikh holiday Vaisakhi, the Muslim holidays of Eid al-Fitr or Eid al-Adha or ...

DELHI, India (RNS) — For more than three decades, Mohammed Mehmood, a Muslim, had been hired by Hindu holy men to light their tents during celebrations of Kumbh Mela, a festival that every 12 ...

I come from India, a secular democracy, where several major Hindu, Muslim, Sikh and Christian religious festivals are national holidays and are extensively covered by the media.

In Varanasi, Muslim men in skull caps and Hindu pilgrims wearing saffron clothes make their way to a temple-mosque complex that's the subject of an ongoing dispute.

India’s Hindu nationalists use a long-dead Muslim emperor as a rallying cry A bookseller shows books about Aurangzeb, a Mughal emperor who ruled in the 17th century. (Manish Swarup / Associated ...

PUBLISHED: May 3, 2023 at 4:45 AM EDT A package of bills in the Michigan House would establish several Muslim, Hindu and Sikh holidays, as well as the Lunar New Year, as state-recognized holidays.