Tag: Funerals and memorial services

VATICAN CITY -- Pope Benedict XVI held one of the world's highest-profile positions but in his final years expressed a ...

VATICAN CITY -- Pope Francis praised Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI’s “acute and gentle thought” as he presided over a packed ...

JOHANNESBURG -- South African President Cyril Ramaphosa has paid tribute to the long-serving deputy secretary-general of his ruling African National ...

JERUSALEM -- Israeli riot police on Friday pushed and beat pallbearers at the funeral for slain Al Jazeera journalist Shireen ...

Motorcycles have rumbled through the streets of Canada’s capital and a memorial service was held at the national War Memorial ...

Morocco has buried 5-year-old Rayan, a boy who was trapped in a well for days and whose plight drew worldwide ...

An official in Tanzania’s semiautonomous region of Zanzibar says 10 people have died when their boat capsized while they were ...

CAPE TOWN, South Africa -- Anglican Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu has been remembered at a state funeral Saturday for his ...

Lebanon's state news agency says two Palestinians died when gunfire broke out during the funeral of a Hamas member killed ...

A Jordanian soldier killed in the 1967 Middle East war has been laid to rest in a military funeral in ...