cemeteries
As threats to Black cemeteries persist, a movement to preserve their sacred heritage gains strength
By Darren Sands and Giovanna Dell'orto — March 15, 2024
MIAMI (AP) — When sites of sacred cultural memory are desecrated, it adds additional trauma to the indignity of being segregated even in death, said the executive director of the African American Cultural Heritage Action Fund.
Report: Nearly half of Jewish cemeteries in Europe are falling apart
By Yonat Shimron — July 15, 2021
(RNS) — The report, to be published in September by the ESJF European Jewish Cemeteries Initiative, found that 44% of the 1,700 cemeteries visited by surveyors were in urgent need of protection.
Newly sanctified Tunisian cemetery for migrants filling fast
By Lori Hinnant and Mehdi El-arem — June 22, 2021
ZARZIS, Tunisia (AP) — Most of the headstones have dates but no names. Row after row of palest white, practically gleaming in the Mediterranean sun. The cemetery in Zarzis is nearly exactly as Rachid Koraïchi pictured it when he sketched his vision of the “Garden of Africa” that would be the final resting place for […]
For Italy’s Muslims, few places to pray and fewer places to bury COVID-19 dead
By Lorenzo Bagnoli — August 12, 2020
(RNS) — As the pandemic proceeded, the building of Islamic cemeteries became a front in a populist culture war.
Justice Department sues Virginia county for blocking Muslim cemetery
By Aysha Khan — June 19, 2020
(RNS) — The Justice Department argues that Stafford County violated the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act by imposing overly restrictive regulations on the Muslim graveyard.
N.J. to Archdiocese of Newark: Get out of the headstone business
By Mark Mueller — March 25, 2015
NEWARK, N.J. — In the 18 months since the archdiocese began marketing headstones, some headstone dealers saw business drop off by 40 percent.
Newark Archdiocese yet to pay taxes in monument business
By Mark Mueller — March 31, 2014
NEWARK, N.J. (RNS) The Archdiocese of Newark in recent years quietly entered the headstone and mausoleum business, a lucrative venture for which the archdiocese acknowledges it must pay a particular state tax. So far, it hasn’t paid a penny.
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