China's Communist Party appears to be restricting religious freedom by cracking down on Christian funerals, in one case arresting a family member mid-service, according to a watchdog group. The news ...

Jiang Zemin, China's former leader who died Wednesday at age 96, is all but certain to receive a grand state funeral after being eulogized by the country's leadership. In a lengthy obituary sent to ...

BEIJING (AP) — The attendance of both the former bishop of Hong Kong and an adviser to Taiwan's leader at this week's funeral for Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI highlights the Vatican's uneasy ...

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China has imposed sweeping funeral reforms to phase out ground burials and encouraged people to consider alternative funeral practices, even sea burials. But the orders have invited backlash from ...

(Bloomberg) -- China will send a former science and technology minister to the state funeral for ex-Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe next week, Japan’s top government spokesman said. The selection ...

Looking for a way to give a departed loved one a send-off everyone will remember? How about hiring strippers to perform at the funeral? In some parts of rural China, this is not considered absurd, but ...

Fresh satellite images of over a dozen funeral homes across China showed a spike in activities in December and January as Covid-19 cases raged in the country. The images taken over a period of time in ...

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President Biden’s decision not to attend former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's funeral on Tuesday sends a weak message to China as tensions rise in the region, Japanese political commentator ...