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MUMBAI, India — Pramukh Swami Maharaj, the spiritual leader who engineered the global expansion of a socially conservative Hindu sect that grew to be the largest in the United States, died on Aug. 13 in Sarangpur, a village in the state of Gujarat in...

INDIA, June 23, 2016 (The Diplomat): On June 21, 2016, the world welcomed the second celebration of the International Day of Yoga - constituted last year by the United Nations through a resolution that won the support of 177 member states. In his message...

On June 9, a law allowing patients with terminal illnesses to end their lives with help from a physician came into effect in California, opening conversations about whether human life should be prolonged against the desire to die peacefully and with...

Four Hindu priests sat cross-legged on the floor in front of silver trays of rice, flowers and vermillion powder, chanting in low baritones that reverberated off the bare walls of the old brick temple.An iPhone propped on a chair captured the service —...

Baba Ramdev has emerged as the leader of the “Baba Cool Movement” — a group of spiritual men who are marketing health-based products based on the ancient Indian medicinal system. Source: A Yoga Master, the King of ‘Baba Cool,’ Stretches Out an Empire -...

(RNS) Hinduism certainly has numerous memorable manifestations of God, from Brahma the Creator to Shiva the Destroyer.But despite the remarkable success of retail giant Amazon, its founder Jeff Bezos is not one of them.That’s why the editor of Fortune...

The Indian Museum in Kolkata has inaugurated an exhibition celebrating the worship of Hindu gods in Japan, a centuries-old tradition fueled by religious syncretism as Japanese worshippers have blended Hinduism into Buddhism and Shintoism. Source: India...

The victim, Mohammad Ikhlaq, was beaten to death after residents stormed his house after a public announcement that he had killed and eaten parts of a cow, villagers said. Source: Goat Meat, Not Beef, Found in Home of Indian Killed Over Cow-Slaughter...

Pope Francis has issued a decree attributing a second miracle to the founder of the Missionaries of Charity who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979. Source: Pope Francis Will Make Mother Teresa A Saint : The Two-Way : NPR

Across India, Christian communities make sweet homemade wines for the festive season from an array of local fruit, roots and grain. But the know-how behind this ancient tradition may be disappearing. Source: From Beetroot To Pineapple, Homemade Wines...