But on Tuesday, the Gadhimai festival began with the killing of a goat, rat, chicken, pig and pigeon. According to animal activists who travelled to a remote corner of Nepal for the festival ...

Hindu worshippers have begun slaughtering thousands of buffalo as part of a religious ritual held every five years in southern Nepal ... at any one site. The Gadhimai Festival – a two-day ...

At least 4,200 buffaloes and thousands of goats and pigeons were killed during a mass sacrifice held as part of the Gadhimai festival, in Bariyarpur village near the Nepal- India border ...

This year, Nepal’s vice president even led the inauguration of the festival, which advocates had requested he not take part in. “Gadhimai is infamous for animal cruelty and human exploitation ...

The time has come for Nepal’s Gadhimai festival, a controversial religious celebration involving mass animal sacrifice. Veuer’s Matt Hoffman has the story. Andrew Cuomo announces he's running ...

Nepal is set to host one of the world's largest religious slaughter of animals after the Eid-ul-Azha festival for the Muslims. Gadhimai festival, celebrated once every five years, will welcome ...

Nepal's Gadhimai Festival, which is the world's largest animal sacrifice and claims the lives of hundreds of thousands of buffalo, goats and birds, will no longer see any blood being shed.

But on Tuesday, the Gadhimai festival began with the killing of a goat, rat, chicken, pig and pigeon. According to animal activists who travelled to a remote corner of Nepal for the festival ...