Hindus are currently celebrating Holi, widely known as the festival of colors and one of the world’s oldest living celebrations — a joyful annual event rooted in ancient myth, spiritual renewal and ...

(RNS) — For many who claim Indo-Caribbean heritage, Vice President Kamala Harris’ spotlight is the perfect chance to dive into the community’s lesser-known past: where indigenous faiths and cultural ...

Hindus are the world’s fourth-largest religious group, after Christians, Muslims, and the religiously unaffiliated. According to Pew Research Center (Hackett et al., 2025), the number of Hindus ...

As the Hindu population in the West grows rapidly, Christian leaders rethink how to engage with them. A software engineer in Seattle. A cardiologist in London. A professor in Toronto. As Hindu ...

As many parents know, the line between passing along cultural traditions and mortifying your children in public can be perilously thin. For one mother, that dilemma arose this year ahead of Navaratri, ...

(RNS) — The Hindu holiday of Raksha Bandhan, which falls on Saturday (Aug. 9), has long followed a familiar custom: a sister ties a rakhi, or sacred thread, around her brother’s wrist to symbolize her ...

The first time someone asked me if I was a “Hindi,” I felt a heaviness in my chest. I felt it come back when I walked into a department store and saw T-shirts with “Namastay in Bed” and “Namaslay” ...

SUKKUR, Pakistan (AP) — On the sandy banks of the Indus River, which flows top to toe through Pakistan and into its southern Sindh province, Hindus waited for brightly colored boats to ferry them to a ...