“It is disgraceful that the Gadhimai temple committee is exploiting the hopes, fears and frustrations of impoverished people for its own profit. The Government of Nepal must protect against the ...

Sacrificed buffaloes lie on the ground of an enclosed compound during the Gadhimai Mela Festival in ... Photo: Reuters/Navesh Chitrakar A temple in southern Nepal known for the mass slaughter ...

The two-day festival, called Gadhimai Mela Festival, takes place at the Gadhimai temple about 100 miles south of Kathmandu. The festival is held every five years, during which hundreds of ...

the first sacrifices in Bariyarpur were conducted several centuries ago when goddess Gadhimai appeared to a prisoner in a dream and told him to offer blood and establish her temple. When he awoke ...