ROME – With the passing of Pope John Paul II (search), a Rome family expected a call from the Vatican to embalm his body. The tradition, carried down from father to son, has for decades fallen to the ...

Mordechai and Esther wrote the Megillah at the end of the Purim story to commemorate the Jewish victory over Haman and the saving of the Jewish people, but they wrote it with a particular audience in ...

MANILA, Philippines—The mortician famous for putting dead dictator Ferdinand Marcos into a glass display case offered his services Friday to the deceased Hugo Chavez, whom Venezuela wants embalmed ...

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MANILA, Philippines — It was newly-crafted investigation guidelines under the coronavirus pandemic that caused medico-legal officers to embalm the body of a flight attendant before a proper autopsy ...