Around 400 animals rescued from being slaughtered at the world’s largest animal sacrifice ritual at Nepal’s Gadhimai Temple, will receive shelter at Vantara, India’s largest animal ...

By Esha Mitra, CNN (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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

At least 4,200 buffaloes and thousands of goats and pigeons were killed during a mass sacrifice held as part of the Gadhimai festival, ... Participants believe that sacrificing animals in the Gadhimai ...

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.

Buffaloes, goats, chickens, pigs, ducks, and even mice will be slaughtered at the Gadhimai Temple in the small border town of Bariyapur from Sunday to Monday to appease the Hindu goddess of power ...