Cremation continues to grow in popularity as America becomes increasingly secular. These changing demographics are impacting the traditional role of the funeral for Christians, as a rite of ...

For years, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints frowned upon cremation, insisting that burial was theologically ...

Nevertheless, cremation is not prohibited, 'unless it was chosen for reasons contrary to Christian doctrine.' " Reasons contrary to Christian doctrine, the church says, include "a denial of ...

DEAR DR. GRAHAM: Does the Bible forbid cremation? That has been a controversial topic in our family recently, because an aunt of mine died not long ago and directed that her body be cremated.

But the meaning of cremation, the symbolic power of yielding human remains to fire, has generated controversy at least since the beginning of the Christian era. Early Christian funeral practices, both ...

The church says the goal is to keep the ashes together at a location where the departed won't be "excluded" from prayers and remembrances of other Christians. Cremation gained bonafides from the ...

Perhaps that's the reason why there's a discernible trend towards cremation of the dead in place of burial at least in major Indian cities. In Kolkata, home to a large number of Christians ...

Inside the ongoing struggle of Kathmandu Valley evangelicals to secure a cemetery and avoid cremation. Death in a Christian home in the Kathmandu Valley brings more than just sorrow. It commences ...

Cremation is not anti-Christian, and funerary rites are not to be withheld from those who are cremated, but in general burial is much to be preferred. This comes as news to the billions of ...

The use of cremation has long varied around the world because of religious preferences and other considerations. Many in the early Christian church saw cremation as a pagan practice, and after the ...

My argument then, by which I still stand, was that cremation was neither African nor Christian. Cremation is an extremely unpopular practice among Africans – hence the debate every time it happens.