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Indian festival draws record 120 million to wash away their sins
A record 120 million pilgrims washed away their sins with plunges in an Indian holy river during the world’s biggest religious festival set to end Sunday, officials said. The two-month-long Kumbh Mela Hindu festival celebrated every 12 years at the conjunction of two sacred rivers on the outskirts of the…
Tens of millions of Indians bathe at Ganges festival
Tens of millions of Hindus gathered for a holy bath in India’s sacred river Ganges on the most auspicious day of the world’s largest religious festival. Ash-smeared naked saints led the ritual bathing before dawn — which is said to cleanse pilgrims of their sins — with millions following them…
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