Christian parents kept their child’s dead body at home in the hope she would come back to life
Parents in Uttar Pradesh’s Mau district kept the body of their four-year-old daughter with them in their house on suggestion
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Death
The Crucifixion Took on New Religious Meaning in the Centuries After the Death of Jesus. Here’s What Changed
The Romans, for all that they had adopted crucifixion as the “supreme penalty,” refused to countenance the possibility that it
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Stabbed Schoolboy Baptista Adjei ‘had plans for life’
The family of a 15-year-old boy who was stabbed to death after getting off a bus said he was a
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West Mercia Police officer charged with the murder of Dalian Atkinson
A West Mercia Police officer is being charged by the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) with murder and another with assault
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South African drought town’s warning to the world
South Africa has imposed emergency measures and is declaring several regions disaster areas, in response to the worst drought in
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US actor-comedian John Witherspoon dies at 77
US actor and comedian John Witherspoon, best known for his role as rapper Ice Cube’s father in the comedy trilogy
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Ashes of dead people cannot be exhumed to make jewellery, Church court rules
Dead people’s ashes cannot be exhumed to make jewellery, a church court has ruled, after a grieving widow wished to
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Lion King actor Andile Gumbi dies aged 36
South African actor Andile Gumbi, who played the adult character of Simba in the stage version of The Lion King
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Christian Convert Murdered By His Muslim Family Over Facebook Post
Hussein Mohammed was the name he was given at birth. But when the Muslim-born Mohammed came to faith in Jesus
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E-fit released in bid to identify Clapham plane-fall man
Police are looking for help to identify a man who fell out of a plane from Kenya into a garden
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Human remains found in woodland ‘could be those of murdered student midwife Joy Morgan’
Human remains found in woodland near Stevenage could be those of murdered student midwife Joy Morgan. Officers were called by
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An RAF veteran with no family has died aged 100 – you are invited to salute him at his funeral
An RAF veteran with no family has died at the age of 100. Now the public are being asked to
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Jessye Norman, Grammy-winning star of opera, dies at 74
US opera singer Jessye Norman, one of the most renowned sopranos of the 20th Century, has died at the age
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BME champion and housing association founder dies aged 85
John Oke, who spent his career championing black and ethnic minority (BME) groups in north London, has died aged 85.
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1Xtra’s DJ Ace needs new kidney – Only 121 people from BAME backgrounds donated their organs after they died last year.
BBC Radio 1Xtra DJ Ace says he’s “just trying to get on with life” as he waits for a new
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