This week marks Diwali, Hinduism’s luminous festival and the most widely celebrated public holiday in India — the world’s ...

On the joyous occasion of Diwali, I am currently in Toronto and would like to extend my heartfelt greetings to all of those ...

Diwali is the five-day festival of lights, symbolizing the victory of good over evil, knowledge over ignorance and spiritual ...

The biggest public holiday in India, Diwali features prayers for prosperity and good fortune — and lots of sweets.

Organisers of an annual religious festival in the Senegalese city of Touba are expecting three to five million pilgrims this week, despite the main ceremony on Tuesday being cancelled in an effort to ...

Pew Research Center conducted this study to better understand the religious and spiritual beliefs, practices, and views of the growing number of people around the world who are religiously ...

More than a billion Hindus, Sikhs, Jains and Buddhists around the world are celebrating Diwali, the festival of lights.