Postcards: On a Greek island, volunteers remake burial site for refugees lost at sea
ELIAS MARCOU, of Reuters, reports from the Greek island of Lesbos…
Living among the dead: Gaza families seek shelter in cemetery
Rafah, Gaza Reuters Displaced again and again by Israel’s military offensive on Gaza, Mahmoud Amer and his family have now pitched their tent close to gravestones in a cemetery in Rafah, the last place of relative safety in the ruined strip of land. The family are among dozens camping in the cemetery, a sandy expanse […]
Year after Kyiv area massacres, police struggle to find those still missing
Borodianka, Ukraine Reuters In a corner of Borodianka’s town cemetery, the bodies of three men lay buried for a year, to no one’s knowledge in the town 55 kilometres north-west of the Ukrainian capital Kyiv. The three men, one of whom police have so far tentatively identified, are the latest confirmed dead civilians from Russian […]
Postcards: Venezuelan does funerals alone in Peru cemetery amid virus
FRANKLIN BRICENO, of Associated Press, reports on the lonely work of Catholic layworker Ronald Marín in a cemetery in Lima…
“No cemetery, no vote”, Mumbai’s Christian voters warn ahead of polls
Mumbai, IndiaThomson Reuters Foundation Christian voters in the Indian city of Mumbai have demanded more burial grounds ahead of national elections next month, claiming they are being forced to pile bodies on top of each other due to overcrowding in cemeteries. India will hold a general election from 11th April and campaigning is now in […]
POSTCARDS: THE CAMBODIAN CEMETERY WHERE THE LIVING OUTNUMBER THE DEAD
MATT BLOMBERG reports for Thomson Reuters Foundation on the plight of landless people in Phnom Penh slums…