Religion news 22 March

Hindu festival in the Himalayas may be a Covid super-spreader India’s health ministry is warning that a huge gathering of devotees for the Mahakumbh Hindu festival could send coronavirus cases surging, Reuters reports. Forty people near the site in the Himalayan holy town of Haridwar, beside the Ganges, have tested positive in a country recording […]

Naw-Rúz, the Persian new year, highlights persecution of Bahá’is in Iran

This weekend, the spring equinox marked the start of the Persian new year, a date celebrated by people in Iran, Afghanistan, Turkey, the Kurdish regions of Iraq and among the diaspora throughout the world.  It is observed by diverse societies in different ways, but usually involves social gatherings, music and food — a festival. And for the Bahá’is it has an added religious significance as a time […]