Mathavan said the workshop provided comprehensive training on the rituals, practices and significance of Hindu funeral ceremonies. “The primary objective is to ensure cultural preservation ...

is the Lugogo Hindu Crematorium. On this particular afternoon in 2023, I arrive at around 2pm just in time to witness one of the day’s cremation ceremonies. The cremation takes place under a ...

"A message to the future." Residents perform powerful ceremony for fading glacier near beloved village: 'We know ... what ...

After public homage between 6 a.m. and 8 a.m., the family rituals will be performed as ... honour ritual between 9 a.m. and 9:30 a.m. The funeral procession will commence at 10 a.m., followed ...

It is grimly easy to discern the hole left by departed faith. Part of it is the prevalent hopelessness that feeds so many ...

Gandang Ahung is not only a cultural heritage but also a way for the Dayak Katingan Awa people to understand life, death, and ...

A fact-finding report documents cases of ‘denial of rights of the deceased’ by Hindu mobs in the eastern state ...

So-called glacier funerals have been held in Iceland, Mexico and Switzerland in recent years, but Monday’s service is the first in the Hindu Kush Himalayan region, which holds the third largest volume ...

A look at some of the hundreds of thousands of Catholics from around the world who flocked to Vatican City to pay their respects to the late pontiff.

For years, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints frowned upon cremation, insisting that burial was theologically ...

Combining striking physical storytelling with dynamic projection and a soundtrack that can be felt and heard, Last Rites is a ...

Pope Leo XIV, history’s first American pope, has vowed to work for unity so that the Catholic Church becomes a sign of peace ...