A butcher swings his blade to sacrifice a buffalo inside an enclosed compound during the sacrificial ceremony of the "Gadhimai Mela" festival held at Bariyarpur in Nepal. The festival, renowned for ...

At least 4,200 buffaloes and thousands of goats and pigeons were killed during a mass sacrifice held as part of the Gadhimai festival, in Bariyarpur village near the Nepal- India border ...

Held every five years, the sacrifice is the culmination of a month-long celebration to honour the Hindu goddess Gadhimai in return for prosperity. “This temple is recognised as the largest ...

In Nepal, a centuries-old ritual of mass animal sacrifice is expected to draw tens of thousands of devotees this week as the Gadhimai festival takes place, despite decades of fierce opposition and ...

even describing them as the epitome of the word "sacrifice." "Kung ang lalim ng dagat ay hindi masusukat, ganyan ang mother's love. Hindi mo siya made-define ng isang scenario or happy moment lang ...

It’s been dubbed “the world’s bloodiest” festival because of the sheer number of animals slaughtered and offered as sacrifice. The Gadhimai festival, a quinquennial religious observance ...

The killings polarise Nepali society every five years. The Supreme Court in 2015 instructed the Gadimai Temple Committee to phase out the mass sacrifice, and issued a mandamus order directing the ...

Some members of the order seem readier than others to sacrifice themselves for the greater good. But does Valya? I’m not so sure. So far, we’ve seen Lila risk her life and Tula risk her soul ...

The deposit is a weapon sacrifice—literally, the weapons were the things sacrificed. Over 1,500 years ago, an Iron Age community deposited over 100 lances, spears, swords, knives, arrowheads ...

Born in Forchtenberg, Germany, in May 1921, Sophie Scholl grew up in a family that valued free thought and Christian ethics. At the time, her father, Robert Scholl, was the town’s mayor and, by the ...