Animals are also sacrificed to celebrate the birth of sons. In 2016 Nepal’s supreme court ordered a gradual phasing out of the practice of animal sacrifice that once saw as many as half a ...
Tihar is the festival that is the second largest in Nepal. Throughout the five days of Tihar, various animals are revered, ...
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 ...
A temple in southern Nepal went ahead with the world’s largest mass sacrificial slaughter of animals this week, despite an outcry from animal rights activists and a Supreme Court ruling seeking to end ...