The time has come for Nepal’s Gadhimai festival, a controversial religious celebration involving mass animal sacrifice. Veuer’s Matt Hoffman has the story. Trump signs executive order ...

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 ...

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 ...

Nepal’s Gadhimai Temple Trust, which oversees the world’s biggest animal sacrifice every five years, announced Tuesday that no slaughter would take place at this year’s festival. The ...

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 Gadhimai temple in southern Nepal is preparing to celebrate its quinquennial festival in which thousands of animals are sacrificed to please the Hindu goddess of power. Organisers estimate up ...

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 ...

Volunteers drag a dead buffalo inside an enclosure for buffalos awaiting sacrifice during the "Gadhimai Mela" festival held in Bariyarpur, Nepal December 2, 2019. The festival, renowned for its ...

Ahead of the Gadhimai festival, animal protection organizations Humane Society International/India and People For Animals are urging devotees not to bring animals for sacrifice. HSI/India and ...

Kathmandu: In a significant move that will save the lives of millions of animals, the practice of sacrifice has been banned at Nepal's Gadhimai festival, the world's biggest animal sacrifice ...