Mumbai: As the Gadhimai Festival comes to an end, animal activists save over 700 animals from being slaughtered at the world’s largest animal sacrifice festival. However as thousands of animals ...

In 2015, caretakers of the temple who also oversee the Gadhimai festival said that the 2019 iteration would be “free from bloodshed.”Days later, however, they clarified to the BBC that devout ...

Lucy is the deputy news editor for Newsweek Europe. Twitter: @DraperLucy Today marks the beginning of the Nepalese Gadhimai festival, where hundreds of thousands of animals are expected to be ...

According to Hindu legend, the tradition dates back around 250 years to when Gadhimai - the Hindu goddess of power - appeared to a prisoner in a dream and asked him to build a temple to her.

At least 4,200 buffaloes and thousands of goats and pigeons were killed during a mass sacrifice held as part of the Gadhimai festival, in Bariyarpur village near the Nepal- India border, ...

The two-day Gadhimai festival kicked off at a Hindu temple in Bariyarpur, located about 80 miles south of Kathmandu, with the ceremonial slaughter of a goat, rat, chicken, ...

Hindu worshippers have begun beheading thousands of buffalo in Nepal as part of what is thought to be the world’s largest animal sacrifice event.. The Gadhimai festival started in the early ...

Gadhimai: Nepal’s mass animal slaughter begins despite outcry. Thousands of Hindus gather in Bariyarpur for the festival said to be world’s biggest animal slaughter ritual.

As the Gadhimai Festival comes to an end, animal activists save over 700 animals from being slaughtered at the world’s largest animal sacrifice festival. However as thousands of animals were ...

A religious festival in Nepal where thousands of animals are sacrificed to a Hindu goddess began on Tuesday despite calls to end the bloodshed. The two-day Gadhimai festival kicked off at a Hindu t… ...