Burial articles
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Burial date for actor Junior Pope announced
The family of the late Nollywood actor, John Odonwodo, popularly known as Junior Pope, has announced his burial arrangements. It can be...
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Triple burial at National Heroes Acre on Monday
Brandon Josphat [email protected] PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa will on Monday preside over the burial of two national heroes and a heroine at the To access this post, you must purchase a subscription. Please click the button below to visit our subscriptions page to select a package. Subscriptions
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‘Our culture is dying’: vulture shortage threatens Zoroastrian burial rites
Inadvertent poisoning of scavengers across Indian subcontinent is forcing some communities to give up ancient customTraditional Zoroastrian burial rites are becoming increasingly impossible to perform because of the precipitous decline of vultures in India, Iran and Pakistan.For millennia, Parsi communities have traditionally disposed of their dead in structures called dakhma, or “towers of silence”. These circular, elevated edifices are designed to prevent the soil, and the sacred elements of...