With the start of this year’s Dying Matters Awareness Week, the Executive Director of a Scottish charity is encouraging people to use the help that’s available for funeral costs. Dying Matters ...

LONDON — Pope Francis specified in his last wishes he wanted a "simple" funeral "without particular decoration." This was in keeping with his aim during his papacy to eschew formalities and ...

and one made of elm — the famously humble Francis chose to be buried in a simple wooden coffin. That change came as part of recently updated funeral planning for pontiffs, published late last ...

He will be buried in a single wooden coffin, rather than three nested ones as his two predecessors were, though they, too, lay in simple coffins at their funerals. After the funeral, Francis ...

A funeral will be held on Saturday for the pope ... including that “the tomb must be in the earth; simple, without particular decoration.” Image Pope Francis will be buried in Santa Maria ...

DW reports on Francis' wish for a simple funeral — and on how the cardinals will choose the next pope. Skip next section More on Religion from around the world ...

Francis requested that simple coffin to contain his mortal remains. It may have been the final sermon he preached — at his own funeral. This was a profoundly moving occasion, but one which ...

Pope Francis's funeral is taking place in St Peter's Square ... It added that while in Buenos Aries as Archbishop he was a 'simple and much loved shepherd' who 'traveled far and wide across ...

“The tomb must be in the earth; simple, without particular decoration and with the only inscription: Franciscus,” the pontiff said in his will, published by the Vatican. The funeral of Pope ...