Dealing with death: Months into COVID-19, funeral directors and clergy continue to innovate death care
ALEJANDRA MOLINA, of Religion News Service, reports on how clergy and funeral industry professionals are looking to help those mourning loved ones…
CORONAVIRUS RESPONSE: AS DEATH TOLL MOUNTS, FAITH LEADERS THE WORLD OVER GRAPPLE WITH FUNERALS
JACK JENKINS and CLAIRE GIANGRAVÉ, of Religion News Service, reports…
Denied in life, India’s lower-caste Dalits fight for land in death
New Delhi, IndiaThomson Reuters Foundation India’s lower-caste Dalits are increasingly asserting their claims over land so they can bury their dead, human rights activists said on Friday, as their traditional burial grounds are targeted by real estate developers and higher-caste Hindus. Last year, a viral video of Dalit men lowering a dead body by a […]
WOW!: DEATH AND DEBT – ETHICAL COMPANIES FIND WAYS TO TACKLE FUNERAL POVERTY
SARAH SHEARMAN, of Thompsn Reuters Foundation, reports on how social enterprises in the UK are offering alternatives to expensive funerals…
FUNERALS: DESIGNER DEATH? SOUTH AFRICA STRUGGLES TO BURY INEQUALITY
KIM HARRISBERG, of Thomson Reuters Foundation, reports from South Africa…
SIGHT-SEEING: WHEN GRIEF HIDES IN THE CHURCH BATHROOM
Potawatomi author and speaker KAITLIN CURTICE, in an article first published by Religion News Service, says churches need to get better at sharing times of grief as well as celebration…
POSTCARDS: AS THE DEAD ARE BURIED, TREES RISE IN ZIMBABWE’S CEMETERIES
JEFFREY MOYO, of Thomson Reuters Foundation, reports from Harare on how cemeteries are helping to address a deforestation crisis…
Cremation plan for late Kenyan politician stirs debate on faith and culture
RNS Kenneth Matiba, a popular politician in Kenya who died last week, will be cremated this week – a plan that has set off a debate in this mostly Christian country, where many view the practice as contrary to their faith and African culture. His family announced Monday that Mr Matiba, a democracy activist and Anglican […]