Relatively few “nones," which include atheists and agnostics, attend religious services or light candles for religious reasons in most of the 22 countries studied.

A study has identified aromatic compounds associated with incense offered by emperors and eminent monks while worshiping the sacred finger bone "sarira," or relic, of Sakyamuni at a Buddhist temple ...

With Sydney grappling with the need for more burial plots, the city's funeral industry is also presented with a new problem — ...