It also voted to accept cremations, which are allowed at local Conservative and Reform cemeteries but not at Orthodox burial grounds, including the neighboring Chesed Shel Emeth, because the ...

Many more Orthodox Christians were arrested and sent to labor camps. Christian intellectuals were purged from the Soviet Union; many died in prisons and concentration camps, the first of which was ...

In Christian cemeteries, graves often include a space ... memory of the departed alive and show ongoing care. In the Greek Orthodox Cemetery located in Sisli, which is one of Istanbul’s central ...

The crematorium, set to open in Paphos in the summer of 2026, marks a significant development in Cyprus’ approach to death and burial practices ... In Cyprus, Orthodox Christian doctrine ...