Rituals

Seven boys in a row, draped in red and white blankets, their faces smeared with white clay and leaning on walking sticks.

Ubuntu offers lessons in how to treat people with disabilities – a study of Bomvana rituals

Lifestyle & Belief

The philosophy of ubuntu means that good health is for everybody and disability is not regarded as a difference.

Clerics carry the coffin after the funeral for Anglican Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu at the St George's Cathedral in Cape Town, South Africa, Saturday, Jan 1, 2022.

What is aquamation, the burial practice Desmond Tutu chose instead of cremation? 

Science & Technology
A man stands at a counter holding an urn with many urn designs behind him

Greece’s first and only crematorium opens despite pushback from the church

Religion

Tibet Self-Immolations Spread To Lhasa

Conflict & Justice