An important distinguishing and defining factor of India is its plurality, and an important unifying theme is its diversity. In this statement lies a self-evident truth about India; everything in ...

NEW DELHI (AP) — A group of Hindus seeks access to pray inside the Gyanvapi mosque, arguing it was built on top of the ruins of a medieval-era temple that was razed by a Mughal emperor. NEW DELHI (AP) ...

SRINAGAR, India (AP) — India’s parliament passed a controversial bill moved by Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Hindu nationalist government to amend laws governing Muslim land endowments while Muslim ...

Some say Christianity in India dates back to the earliest followers of Jesus in the first century C.E. Today, there are millions of Christians in the country, although they make up just 2.4% of ...

The Indian state of Uttarakhand became the first in the country to pass a contentious bill that will establish a unified personal law for all citizens irrespective of their religion. The landmark ...

Indians nearly universally take great pride in their country. Fully 96% of Indian adults say they are very proud to be Indian, and similarly large percentages say they are very proud to be from their ...

GRAND HISTORIC MASS-CONVERSION CEREMONY, proclaimed posters in a town by the Ganges. Loudspeakers blared that “many Christians tonight will perform a mass return to the religion of their souls.” Only ...

GUDUTA, India — The ritual began with a thunderous roll of leather drums, its clamor echoing through the entire village. Women dressed in colorful saris broke into an Indigenous folk dance, tapping ...

Exploring the deep fault lines where faith, power, and ideology collide in modern India's complex landscape, says KUMAR CHELLAPPAN Kunchan Nambiar (1705-1770), the great Malayalam poet, once wrote ...

(UPDATED) Pew surveys 30,000 Indians across 6 faiths and 17 languages and finds support for tolerance yet also segregation. A third of Hindus in India would not be willing to accept a Christian as a ...

Garlanded and photographed, Billy Graham was cutting through India like Gabriel in a gabardine suit. In Bombay, bloody Communist-led rioting canceled his scheduled meeting; he toured the riot area ...