Pope Francis' body has been pictured in an open coffin as the Vatican confirmed the date of his funeral. The late pontiff died on Easter Monday aged 88. The Vatican has confirmed the funeral will ...

In changes made by the Pope last year, his body has been placed in a simplified wooden coffin with a zinc coffin inside, rather than in three wooden coffins as was previously tradition.

The pope is then entombed in the grottoes below St. Peter's Basilica with three coffins: one made of cypress, one of lead and one of oak. Then, a nine-day mourning period observed by the church ...

Rather, he focused largely on job creation as “the best way to drive a nail in the coffin of poverty.” Will that be enough to convince a mercurial U.S. president that the bank and his ...

Archaeologists discovers 13 wooden coffins in the ancient Egyptian necropolis of Saqqara. ‘Wrongfully Detained’: Seven American Hostages Released Oklahoma is back on top in NCAA women's ...

Let’s find out. In the Ghanaian capital, death gets a designer touch. On Accra's infamous Coffin Street, funerals are fashion shows of the afterlife. Want a coffin shaped like a Mercedes-Benz?

Inside, you’ll find remnants of the Sinclair legacy, stone coffins, and candles (both lit and unlit), but most suspicious of all, you’ll find angel statues spread around the crypt, which you ...

They were often displayed on wedjat amulets, which were protective tokens inserted into mummy wrappings, tombs, or coffins. The symbol, dedicated to Horus, the deity of kingship and protection ...

A key ally of Vladimir Putin has issued a chilling warning that European troops potentially deployed to Ukraine as peacekeepers would return in coffins. Former Russian president Dmitry Medvedev ...

Each coffin was meant to represent 100,000 lives at risk due to cuts to the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief. Two days ago, Charles King — the head of the New York City-based nonprofit ...

Activists march toward the State Department. Activists stacked more than 200 coffins in front of the State Department Thursday to protest the devastation of global HIV-fighting programs by Donald ...

“Apparently, the top of Ukraine’s fascist clique have come to Paris for talks with the UK, Germany and France on how many European coffins they will be ready to accept after the deployment of ...