In most cultures, death is certain. It is the final truth. Hindu, Buddhist, Sikh, and Jain communities believe in rebirth based on karma (actions). Christians, Muslims, and Jews believe in the ...

It involves exhuming the bodies of deceased relatives every few years for a big family reunion – complete with music, dancing, and feasting! This practice might seem strange at first, but for the ...

In Madagascar, winter brings with it a unique family gathering. Across the central highlands, communities practise the famadihana – the “turning of the dead”. The ritual, rooted in Austronesian ...

RELATIVES dancing with the corpses of their loved ones who have died from the Black Death are helping to spread the plague, officials have warned. Madagascans have been told to stop the traditional ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Madagascar's plague outbreak has killed more than 100 people and ...

In Madagascar, ceremonies in which families exhume the remains of dead relatives, rewrap them in fresh cloth and dance with the corpses are a sacred ritual. But an outbreak of plague sweeping the ...

A traditional ceremony -- in which family members exhume ancestors, change their shrouds and dance with their bodies -- is splitting Malagasy along religious lines. (See related article) ...

In Madagascar, winter brings with it a unique family gathering. Across the central highlands, communities practise the famadihana - the "turning of the dead". The ritual, rooted in Austronesian ...