As a burial expert, I’m confronted by grief all the time. The pandemic, however, was a whole new ball game. And it changed me. My mother, who was my best friend, died in 2013, and it had a profound ...

A proposal to build a cemetery for Muslims in South Miami-Dade County was rejected by a community zoning appeals board late Thursday evening after hours of public comments. The request came from a ...

On Monday 15, February 2021, two men who played key roles in Kenyan politics were laid to rest. One, 89-year-old Simeon Nyachae who died on February 1, 2021. The other, Garissa Senator Yusuf Haji aged ...

People arrive to a public zoning hearing at the South Dade Regional Library on Tuesday, Nov. 12, 2024. The meeting, which was postponed due to a lack of quorum, was set to discuss a proposed Muslim ...

WILMINGTON, Delaware (WPVI) -- A new cemetery in New Castle County, Delaware has caused quite a controversy over the past few weeks. But after a meeting with county officials Wednesday, all parties ...

A Lancashire cemetery could have an extended Muslim burial area and other changes, if councillors approve a range of work potentially costing up to £600,000. Other new elements at Haslingden Cemetery ...

Bluff City Cemetery’s section for Muslim burials is expanding with the sale of more than 900 grave spaces to the Midwest Islamic Center. Elgin city officials approved an agreement with the ...

Plans for a 9,000 plot Muslim burial site on rural farmland in Cornwall have been withdrawn after a furious public backlash. A planning row erupted after a charity - The Gardens of Mercy - requested ...

For many immigrant families, the pandemic has halted the tradition of repatriating bodies to their country of origin, and finding a plot in France has become ever more difficult. By Constant Méheut ...

President Uhuru Kenyatta pays his last respects to the late former Cabinet Minister Simeon Nyachae at his gravesite during his burial at his Nyosia home, Kisii County on February 15, 2021. [PSCU, ...