Body of captive slain by terrorists on Oct. 7 and held for two years arrives at Bangkok airport, where family waits to ...

Death is a shared commonality of the human condition, yet the rituals that attend it vary significantly across cultures and religions. The one commonality is that while the nature of death itself does ...

On a recent gray day, the earth next to the Islamic Garden at National Memorial Park near Falls Church was upturned for expansion. There, deceased Muslims are often propped on one shoulder inside ...

The boy and girl mourning their slain father marched in a circle around a funeral altar as Buddhist monks in yellow robes chanted. The children's ritual was in keeping with a Chinese tradition to help ...