The pilgrims come and go as strangers. They march like a sea of people, walking towards the spot where they take holy baths, drawn by the hope that the bathing would bring them salvation.

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NEW DELHI (AP) — Hindu devotees, mystics and holy men and women have gathered in India’s northern city of Prayagraj for the Maha Kumbh festival, the world’s largest religious gathering.

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BY JYOTHSNA HEGDE Freezing waters notwithstanding, nearly 15 million devotees and visitors took a dip in the revered rivers ...

An Indian diocese has opened its facilities to welcome Hindu pilgrims during a six-week festival in a ... a ritual bath in the confluence of the holy rivers Ganges, Yamuna, and mythical Saraswathi can ...

Hindu devotees will keep arriving in the north Indian city from across the country to bathe at the confluence of the Ganges, the Yamuna and the mythical Saraswati rivers. Many will sustain ...

Millions of Hindu devotees are bathing in sacred waters as the world’s biggest religious gathering begins in India’s northern ...