A funeral was held for ANC MP and former UDF activist Hishaam ... were placed neatly in rows on his grave. A simple small headstone with his name and date of birth marked his final resting place.

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 ...

Pope Francis's funeral is scheduled for April 26 ... will the late pontiff’s family be attending the service? The ‘simple’ family man! Although to the whole world, he was the Pope, to ...

In line with this commitment, he was also known for living a simple lifestyle, spurning conventions of papal finery. So, it was no surprise that for his funeral, Francis simplified traditions.

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 ...

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 ...

POPE Francis is carried on his final journey in a simple wooden casket yesterday as a million mourners bade an emotional farewell at his funeral. Royals and world leaders — including Prince ...

WASHINGTON — The funeral for Pope Francis was intended to ... His final request, left in a will compiled in 2022, was simple: to be buried in naked soil in a single wooden coffin engraved ...

The relatively simple funeral for Francis, who died at age 88 on Monday, was attended by some 170 heads of state and other dignitaries. Trump sat among Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelenskyy, France’s ...

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 ...

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 bring the ...