MUMBAI, India (RNS) — With steadily declining numbers, some of India’s Zoroastrians are looking to reduce the strain of becoming a priest in order to encourage more young men to devote themselves to ...

For more than 1,000 years, Parsis have thrived in South Asia but an ageing population and emigration to the West driven by instability in Pakistan means the tiny community of "fire worshippers" could ...

Any land or religion born out of conquering, cheating the natives out of their land, duping, and enticing the common poor man to change their beliefs by inducement will never lay the foundation for ...

NEW YORK (AP) — SOAS University’s Almut Hintze, a professor of Zoroastrianism, has described the global community as “microscopically small” and worries about the decline of Parsis in India. NEW YORK ...

In an old, neo-gothic building in Fort, an upmarket area in India's financial capital Mumbai, is a run-down office that produces one of country's oldest and most prominent Parsi magazines - Parsiana.

After Bombay Parsi Punchayet appealed in Supreme Court against Bombay High Court's quashing of its ban on two priests performing religious ceremonies, the apex court referred the matter to mediation ' ...