Tag: Funerals and memorial services
Northeastern goalie Aerin Frankel wins Kazmaier Award
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — Senior goaltender Aerin Frankel of Northeastern University won the Patty Kazmaier Memorial Award on Saturday as the top top player...
South Africa’s Zulu king is buried amid praise, controversy
JOHANNESBURG — The traditional leader of South Africa’s 12 million Zulu people, King Goodwill Zwelithini, has been laid to rest in a private ceremony...
Asian American churches plan acts beyond prayer for healing
Asian American Christian leaders said Thursday their congregations are saddened and outraged after a white gunman killed eight people — most of them women...
Lost to mountain, Japanese internee’s bones return home
SANTA MONICA, Calif. — When Giichi Matsumura arrived at his final resting place in late December, the people who knew him best when he...
Lost to mountain, Japanese internee’s bones return home
SANTA MONICA, Calif. — When Giichi Matsumura arrived at his final resting place in late December, the people who knew him best when he...
Faith leaders’ year of pandemic: grief, solace, resilience
In a pandemic-wracked year, religious leaders and spiritual counselors across the U.S. ministered to the ill, fed the hungry, consoled the bereaved. Some did...
Chief speaks at funeral for Nebraska teen shot in Oklahoma
BLAIR, Neb. — An Oklahoma police chief who spoke at the funeral of a 17-year-old Nebraska girl who died in a shootout with four...
Japan marks 10th disaster anniversary but still recovering
TOKYO — Japan is marking the 10th anniversary Thursday of the earthquake, tsunami and nuclear disaster that hit the northeastern region, where many survivors'...
20th anniversary Sept. 11 tributes to include families again
NEW YORK — A year after a disagreement over coronavirus protocols spawned competing Sept. 11 ceremonies in New York, the 20th anniversary of...
Sweden royals hold church service for COVID-19 victims
STOCKHOLM — Sweden’s King Carl XVI Gustaf and his wife Queen Silvia held a church ceremony Thursday to honor the victims of the coronavirus.
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