KATMANDU, Nepal – A festival believed to be the largest animal sacrifice ritual in the world began Friday in southern Nepal, where devotees believe the sacrifices bring good luck and a Hindu goddess ...

Hundreds of thousands of Hindus gathered at a temple in southern Nepal on Tuesday for a ceremony involving the slaughter of more than 200,000 animals, a festival that has drawn the ire of ...

Animal rights activists have urged the Nepali government to stop what they’ve called “an appalling bloodbath” after they claimed thousands of animals were killed as part of a festival held every five ...

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KATMANDU, Nepal (AP) — A festival believed to be the largest animal sacrifice ritual in the world began Friday in southern Nepal, where devotees believe the sacrifices bring good luck and a Hindu ...

Nepal is still reeling from the April 25 earthquake that left at least 7,000 people dead, with thousands more still missing. At a distance, it’s easy to make a distinction between the human lives ...

Animal-rights campaigners are hoping this year's festival season in Nepal will be a little less bloody. During the 15-day Dasain festival that began this week in the Himalayan country, families fly ...

Butchers kill buffalo during a mass slaughter of the animals for the Gadhimai festival in Nepal. Getty Images A temple in southern Nepal known for the mass slaughter of animals at a festival there ...

The ceremony began with prayers in a temple by tens of thousands of Hindus before dawn Tuesday. Then it shifted to a nearby corral, where in the cold morning mist, scores of butchers wielding curved ...

A Hindu devotee holds leg of the buffalo as a butcher gets ready to sacrifice a buffalo during Gadhimai festival in Bariyarpur in Bara district south of Kathmandu, Nepal. AP A religious festival in ...