Goa priest bans burying dead with gold, trinkets

PANAJI - Funerals will not be conducted if relatives of deceased bury the dead with gold and other valuables, a Goan Roman Catholic priest said Saturday.

2.5 mn Muslims threaten to leave Facebook

LONDON - More than 2.5 million Muslims have threatened to quit Facebook after four Islamic pages were taken down, reports said Friday.

Leicester hindus protest cemetery extension

LEICESTER - A section of local Hindus is protesting a proposal to extend a cemetery in this town of Britain because their religion says they cannot live near one, but officials are going ahead with the plan.

Romanian Orthodox Church refuses full burial service for singer because she committed suicide

Church: No full burial service for Romanian singer

Pilgrimage to Shiva’s shrine begins in Himachal

SHIMLA - The annual Shrikhand Mahadev pilgrimage, more arduous than the Amarnath Yatra in Jammu and Kashmir, took off Friday morning in Himachal Pradesh’s Shimla district with 2,000 devotees beginning the trek to pay obeisance to the Hindu god Shiva.