Throughout the last year of the war, despite a steady stream of sirens warning of rockets from nearby Lebanon, vocalist ...

This is the terrifying moment a venomous snake appeared in a river as women held a religious ritual in India. Footage shows a fearless worshipper in the water being approached by a banded krait during ...

Friday night, vibrant lights and music enveloped the MSU Union Ballroom as over 300 students gathered to celebrate Diwali, a ...

Tens of thousands of Hindu devotees flocked to rivers and bodies of water across India to pray to the sun god as part of the ...

While Diwali is a major religious festival for Hindus ... This year, several northern Indian states, including the capital New Delhi, are instituting partial or total fireworks bans to combat ...

This Diwali marks the city of Ayodhya's seventh consecutive Guinness World Record for the largest oil lamp display.

In southern India, Diwali celebrates the victory of Lord Krishna's destruction of the demon Naraka who is said to have imprisoned women and tormented his subjects. In northern India, Diwali honors the ...

The Vatican’s Dicastery for Interreligious Dialogue issued a message at the celebration of Diwali — India’s biggest Hindu ...

(AP Photo/Rajesh Kumar Singh) Yogi Adityanath, Chief Minister of the northern Indian state of Uttar ... While Diwali is a major religious festival for Hindus, it is also observed by Sikhs, Jains ...