Fatima nun buried amid tears and flowers
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Lucia dos Santos, the last of three children who claimed to have seen the Virgin Mary at Fatima in 1917, has been buried after a procession marked by tears, flowers and white handkerchiefs.
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FILIPINOS buried the film legend Fernando Poe jnr yesterday with sorrow and spectacle but without the violence that many had feared would mar the funeral of the former presidential candidate.
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The mother of Russia's  last tsar, forced into exile by the Bolshevik revolution, was  to be laid to rest next to her family on Thursday, as Russia  tries to make peace with its dark past.
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Hundreds of visitors started gathering at the tomb of Mother Teresa in eastern India on Wednesday to pay tribute on the tenth anniversary of her death, with many hoping for the nun&#39;s sainthood.
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For more than two decades he was Pope John Paul II&#039;s confidant and the Vatican&#039;s public face. A usually unflappable Spaniard, Joaquin Navarro-Valls struggled to hold back tears as the Polish pontiff lay on his deathbed.
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Sister Leonella Sgorbati, who was slain outside a hospital where she worked as a missionary in Somalia's restive capital, was remembered Thursday as a devoted nun who was willing to die to help the starving and sick in Africa.
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A terminally-ill baby who had been at the centre of a battle in the High Court has been buried.
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Filipinos buried movie legend turned  politician Fernando Poe Jr with sorrow and spectacle on  Wednesday as warnings and rumors of plots failed to materialize  among the large, peaceful crowd for the funeral.
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The 19th-century mystic nun who inspired some of the more controversial scenes of Mel Gibson&#39;s hit movie, &quot;The Passion of the Christ,&quot; was beatified yesterday by Pope John Paul II.
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SANTIAGO, Chile  - Thousands of mourners filed past the coffin of former dictator Augusto Pinochet on Monday, praying, crying and paying their respects to a man who divides Chilean public opinion in death as he did in life.
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SANTIAGO, Chile  - Some 5,000 fervent supporters of Augusto Pinochet mourned on Tuesday at the funeral of the former Chilean dictator whose repressive 17-year rule made him infamous worldwide for human rights abuses.
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Grieving relatives and villagers buried a rebel Pakistani cleric on Thursday, but almost 70 followers killed with him when troops stormed an Islamabad mosque were interred without ceremony in unmarked graves.
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OIMBRA, Portugal, FEB. 15, 2005 .- The death of Sister Lucia, the last of the Fatima visionaries, is considered by many Portuguese bishops to be the passing away of a real "example of faith." The ...
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The 19th century mystic nun who inspired some of the more controversial scenes of Mel Gibson&#39;s hit movie, The Passion of the Christ, was beatified on Sunday by Pope John Paul II.
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A war widow who wants the government to put a Wiccan religious symbol on her husband&#039;s memorial plaque held an alternative service Monday as a protest, hours before an official Memorial Day ceremony nearby.
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ANAPU, Brazil  - Thousands of Amazon peasants  flocked to the funeral of a U.S. nun Tuesday and vented anger  that Brazil's government only acted to stem rising violence in  the rain forest after the murder of the renowned foreign  activist.
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Family and friends gathered at Westminster Cathedral Saturday to remember Margaret Hassan, a respected aid worker abducted and believed murdered in Iraq.