Within Nigeria

The controversies that followed Allwell Ademola’s funeral rites

The day Allwell Ademola was mourned publicly, grief did not arrive quietly. It arrived through phone screens, through shared ...

Arriving at church for my mother’s funeral, I didn’t know if I could sing for her

A funeral singer devastated by her mother’s death arrives at the church but is not sure she can pull off a performance that ...
The Courier-Mail

Brekkie Wrap: Monty Python song tops funeral hit list over traditional hymns

That’s according to new research in the UK which shows Monty Python’s Always Look on the Bright Side is now the #1 most-played song at funerals. The silly song now tops traditional hymns The Lord is ...
The Guardian Nigeria

Spokesman faults claim of INEC staff singing ‘funeral hymn’ for Yakubu

Rotimi Oyekanmi, the former Chief Press Secretary to the immediate past Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, has dismissed a report by an online ...
The Independent

Deaths of slain mother and children an ‘unspeakable loss’, funeral hears

A mother and her two children allegedly murdered in Co Fermanagh are now "together and finally safe", mourners at their funeral have heard. Crowds gathered in the Co Clare village of Barefield on ...
London Evening Standard

Murdered mother and children ‘together and finally safe’ – funeral hears

Vanessa Whyte, 45, and her children James Rutledge, 14, and Sara Rutledge, 13, died in a shooting at their home in Maguiresbridge, Co Fermanagh. Hearses passed a guard of honour at the funeral for ...
EDP 24

Murdered mother and children ‘together and finally safe’ – funeral hears

This article is brought to you by our exclusive subscriber partnership with our sister title USA Today, and has been written by our American colleagues. It does not necessarily reflect the view of The ...
Lancaster Farming

3 Hymns That Evoke Memories of Mother [Opinion]

With Mother’s Day weekend at hand, come memories of my mother, E. Fay Ginder Bowman. Even though she passed away almost 21 years ago, there are still very few days that my mother doesn’t come to mind.
pagenews

Greek Hymn “Christos Anesti” Marks a Symbolic Farewell at Pope Francis’ Funeral

The 88-year-old pontiff, who passed away shortly after delivering his Easter Sunday Urbi et Orbi blessing, was honored with this Eastern Orthodox hymn, symbolizing resurrection and eternal life—a ...