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Added on the 01/09/2020 14:00:00 - Copyright : EFE Inglés
Hindus in Pakistan's port city of Karachi celebrated the Holi festival, dancing and smearing coloured powder on each other on Sunday. Holi, the popular Hindu spring festival of colours is observed mainly in India and across countries at the end of the winter season and with the arrival of the spring harvest season, on the last full moon of the lunar month. Hindus make around two percent of the Muslim-majority Pakistan, where they have long complained of discrimination and violence.
Amritsar, Mar 11 (EFE/EPA).- Thousands of Hindus on Friday celebrated the birth of Shiva, among the most important gods in the Hindu pantheon, with offerings and prayers.The devotees believe their desires will fulfilled if they worship Shiva on this day and began lining up at dawn Friday outside of main temples across India. (Camera: RAMINDER PAL SINGH).SHOT LIST: HINDU DEVOTEES COME OUT TO OFFER PRAYERS TO LORD SHIVA AT A TEMPLE DURING THE MAHASHIVRATRI FESTIVAL IN AMRITSAR, INDIA.
Kathmandu (Nepal), Feb 8 (EFE/EPA), (Camera: Narendra Shrestha).- The Hindu community in Nepal on Monday celebrated the religious festival Madhav Narayan, which consists of taking a purification bath in several sacred rivers of the Himalayan country and thus bringing prosperity to their families. FOOTAGE OF THE CELEBRATION OF THE RELIGIOUS FESTIVAL MADHAV NARAYAN.
Kathmandu, Nov 21 (EFE/EPA).- Thousands of Hindu devotees on Saturday took a dip in the Bagmati River in a ritual dedicated to Surya, the Sun God, and prayed for prosperity and well-being to celebrate the "Chhath Puja" festival.Chhath Puja is an ancient Hindu festival, is held on consecutive days at sunrise and sunset to pray for well-being, prosperity and progress from Surya, who is depicted surrounded by seven horses. Hindu devotees were seen carrying bamboo baskets full of offerings such as coconuts, flowers, sugarcane, ginger, turmeric, honey and fruits, into the river. (Camera: NARENDRA SHRESTHA). SHOT LIST: HINDU DEVOTEES CELEBRATE CHHATH PUJA ON THE BANK OF THE BAGMATI RIVER IN KATHMANDU, NEPAL.
People celebrate Mother's Day in North Korea's capital Pyongyang, with customers shopping for cosmetics for their mothers at a store and women visiting a beauty parlour for the occasion.