BEIJING - As the Communist Party of China continues to tighten its grip on the regulation of religion and religious activity, a human rights group is reporting that officials are disrupting religious ...

An elderly man in eastern China suffered a serious illness after following a local funeral custom meant to comfort his late mother's soul, reported South China Morning Post. The incident has drawn ...

With Tomb-Sweeping Day around the corner, Chinese-Americans are getting ready to honor their ancestors and mourn their deceased loved ones. The tradition is still there, but has taken various forms at ...

If you're worried about what you'll look like when you're dead, a Chinese funeral parlor has got you covered. The Longhua funeral home in Shanghai is using 3-D printing technology to restore body ...

Lavish funerals are an important part of rural Chinese culture, but one ceremony in northwest China costing over 10 million yuan (US$1.5 million) has raised the question as to whether the age-old ...

BEIJING – The Chinese government said on Thursday it will not send an envoy to Pope John Paul II's (search) funeral due to its long-standing policy of refusing to recognize states that have diplomatic ...

BEIJING (AP) — Chinese officials are launching a campaign to crack down on stripteases and other lewd shows that have become popular at funerals in some rural areas, the Ministry of Culture said ...

Read Crain's feature about the funeral industry's death spiral and the few operators managing to stay alive. In 2001, Joe Aievoli put up a small sign in Chinese on the Aievoli Funeral Home in Dyker ...

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CHENGDU — Chinese hospitals and funeral homes were under intense pressure on Wednesday as a surging COVID-19 wave drained resources, while the scale of the outbreak and doubts over official data ...