Solemn, theatrical rituals reserved for members of the armed forces who passed away or were killed in the line of duty Most cultures recorded in history have developed their own, often elaborate, ...

Malta on Thursday honoured the memory of the estimated 800 people who perished in the Mediterranean's worst migrant disaster with a poignant inter-faith funeral service for 24 of them. The bodies of ...

Peter Caruana Galizia, at right, front row, surrounded by his three sons, watches as the coffin of his wife Daphne Caruana Galizia, an investigative journalist killed by a car bomb, arrives for the ...

Funerals for 24 people killed in the worst ever recorded capsizing of a migrant boat in the Mediterranean have been held in Malta. More than 800 people died in Sunday’s disaster. Italian police say ...

The bishops of Malta have given a more detailed explanation why priests will no longer visit morgues before funerals take place. On Friday, the Curia announced that the Archdiocese of Malta has ...

A recent feature in the present series covered military funerals throughout the later colonial era. Those now figure as history, as I am not aware that the present armed forces have retained all the ...

Bishop of the Maltese island of Gozo, Mario Grech (2nd L) and Imam Mohammed El Sadi (far L) deliver messages in front of the coffins with the bodies of 24 migrants during an inter-faith burial service ...

Armed Forces of Malta soldiers carry coffins with the bodies of migrants to an inter-faith burial service at Mater Dei Hospital in Tal-Qroqq, outside Valletta, April 23, 2015. REUTERS/Darrin Zammit ...