This week, Sikhs around the world are preparing to celebrate the religious observance of Vaisakhi. Several key historical events are connected to the festival, including the inauguration of the Khalsa ...

This Friday marks Vaisakhi, one of the most significant and widely observed annual celebrations for Sikhs, who make up the fifth-largest major world religion. Vaisakhi – sometimes spelled Baisakhi – ...

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) - Tuesday is Vaisakhi, the Sikh New Year festival. It's marked around the world, including here at home. CBS2's Kiran Dhillon has more on how the community here is celebrating.

For Sikhs, Vaisakhi is a holiday that signifies the most pivotal moment in their religion. Culturally, Vaisakhi has a different meaning for the state of Punjab and surrounding areas. It used to be ...

HOLYOKE, Mass. (WWLP) – At Holyoke City Hall, members of the local Sikh community started their celebration of Vaisakhi on Tuesday with prayers and a flag-raising ceremony. The month of April is ...

CARUTHERS, Calif. (KFSN) -- Easter is not the only religious holiday being celebrated in the Valley on Sunday. For members of the Sikh community -- it's Vaisakhi. Valley Sikhs have been celebrating ...

WASHINGTON (Army News Service, May 4, 2015) -- With music, prayers, and words of faith, Sikhs celebrated Vaisakhi and their new year Friday at the Pentagon. "Today we are truly blessed," said the ...

Baisakhi is one of the many different festivals that Indians celebrate, especially the Sikh community. Baisakhi, or Vaisakhi as many call it, is one of the most important Sikh festivals in India and ...

(RNS) — For centuries now, Punjabis have marked the spring harvest with the celebration of Vaisakhi, and for the past 300 or so years, the holiday has also carried special significance for Sikhs. It ...

NANKANA SAHIB, Pakistan — Thousands of Sikhs were in Pakistan on Monday to celebrate Vaisakhi, a harvest festival that marks the start of the Sikh New Year and is mostly observed in Punjab and ...