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The global Hindu population has increased by a healthy 12 percent, from 1.1 billion to 1.2 billion (1.2 crore) in the last decade (2010-2020), and Hinduism is the fourth largest religion on the planet ...
Religion News Service

Explaining the Hindu divide at the Parliament of the World's Religions

(RNS) — At the Parliament of the World’s Religions in Chicago last week with the theme of defending human rights, several Hindu groups complained that, at an event that celebrates common ground among ...
Los Angeles Times

India kicks off a massive Hindu festival touted as the world’s largest religious gathering

PRAYAGRAJ, India — Millions of Hindu devotees, mystics and holy men and women from all across India flocked to the northern city of Prayagraj on Monday to kickstart the Maha Kumbh festival, which is ...
The Diplomat

What Hindu Nationalists Really Believe

Prime Minister Narendra Modi performing Bhoomi Pujan (ground-breaking ceremony) of the Ram temple in Ayodhya, India, Aug. 5, 2020. Credit: Wikimedia Commons/Press Information Bureau-Prime Minister’s ...
The New York Times

Modi Opens a Giant Temple in a Triumph for India’s Hindu Nationalists

The temple inaugurated by the prime minister is on the disputed site of a centuries-old mosque destroyed in a Hindu mob attack that set a precedent of impunity in cases of violence against Muslims. In ...
Los Angeles Times

A massive Hindu temple has just opened in India. Why is it so controversial?

AYODHYA, India — About 80 chartered flights have landed at the new international airport in India’s holy city of Ayodhya for Monday’s partial opening of a controversial temple dedicated to one of ...