In 2015, caretakers of the temple who also oversee the Gadhimai festival said that the 2019 iteration would be “free from bloodshed.”Days later, however, they clarified to the BBC that devout ...

Shyam Prasad Yadav, the mayor of Gadhimai, told CNN that that was “not true” and that government officials had been working with temple authorities to gradually end the practice.

In 2015, the Gadhimai Temple Trust announced that it was banning animal sacrifice at future festivals, following efforts by Animal Welfare Network Nepal and Humane Society International, India.

Animal rights activists have urged the Nepali government to stop what they’ve called “an appalling bloodbath” after they claimed thousands of animals were killed as part of a festival held ...

The ritual begins before dawn in the fields outside Gadhimai temple in Bariyarpur, where a priest trickles his own blood combined with that of a rat, chicken, pigeon, goat, and pig.

Hindus gathered at a temple in Nepal for a ceremony involving the slaughter of more than 200,000 animals, a festival that has drawn the ire of animal-welfare protesters.

Shyam Prasad Yadav, the mayor of Gadhimai, told CNN that that was “not true” and that government officials had been working with temple authorities to gradually end the practice.

“Gadhimai is infamous for animal cruelty and human exploitation,” said Alokparna Sengupta, HSI’s India director, in a statement last week. “It is disgraceful that the Gadhimai temple ...

(CNN) — Animal rights activists have urged the Nepali government to stop what they’ve called “an appalling bloodbath” after they claimed thousands of animals were killed as part of a ...