KATMANDU, Nepal – A festival believed to be the largest animal sacrifice ritual in the world began Friday in southern Nepal, where devotees believe the sacrifices bring good luck and a Hindu goddess ...

Hundreds of thousands of Hindus gathered at a temple in southern Nepal on Tuesday for a ceremony involving the slaughter of more than 200,000 animals, a festival that has drawn the ire of ...

Nepal is still reeling from the April 25 earthquake that left at least 7,000 people dead, with thousands more still missing. At a distance, it’s easy to make a distinction between the human lives ...

Nepal celebrated Kukur Tihar, a special day dedicated to honoring dogs with garlands, treats, and rituals. Across the country ...

Butchers kill buffalo during a mass slaughter of the animals for the Gadhimai festival in Nepal. Getty Images A temple in southern Nepal known for the mass slaughter of animals at a festival there ...

KATHMANDU, Dec 4 (Reuters) - Tens of thousands of devout Hindus thronged a temple in southern Nepal where thousands of animals and birds were sacrificed this week, amid an outcry from animal rights ...

Bhaktapur, where we have a fully functional clinic for our volunteers. Early on Saturday we woke to hear the heartbreaking news that Nepal had been hit by a 7.8 earthquake. Nora Livingstone, one of ...

The ceremony began with prayers in a temple by tens of thousands of Hindus before dawn Tuesday. Then it shifted to a nearby corral, where in the cold morning mist, scores of butchers wielding curved ...

A Hindu devotee holds leg of the buffalo as a butcher gets ready to sacrifice a buffalo during Gadhimai festival in Bariyarpur in Bara district south of Kathmandu, Nepal. AP A religious festival in ...

KATHMANDU, (Reuters) A temple in southern Nepal known for the mass slaughter of animals at a festival there every five years has indefinitely banned animal sacrifice, India’s Humane Society ...