PARIS (RNS) Franck Darmon is only 35, but he already knows where his bones will lie. Not in his native France, but in Israel. “When you compare a cemetery in Israel — with the blue sky, the sun and ...

President Trump faced a deluge of criticism Saturday after blaming bad weather for skipping out on a scheduled visit to a French cemetery to honor U.S. soldiers killed in World War I. The commander-in ...

Where are all the obelisks? That’s what local historian Tony Brooks wondered as he toured cemeteries on a recent trip to Paris. After all, he said, the Luxor Obelisk on Place de la Concorde has become ...

French police reportedly are investigating fresh acts of vandalism in two Jewish cemeteries and a municipal building. On Monday in Paris, police arrested two men suspected of digging up two corpses at ...

The ankle-high grass is gone, the undergrowth has been cleared and all the tombstones are visible. The next time you visit Chandernagore, you can actually walk into the French cemetery. The state ...

PARIS (AP) — Five teens accused of vandalizing a Jewish cemetery faced preliminary charges Wednesday after the prosecutor said an “anti-Semitic motive” in the destruction seemed clear. Prosecutor ...

(JTA) — Five days after a municipal truck plowed through a Jewish cemetery near Paris in what authorities said was a freak accident, Isabelle Zenou arrived at the scene of the incident with a camera — ...

Pope Francis holds roses as he presides over a ceremony on the occasion of All Souls Day, at French Military Cemetery on the occasion of All Souls Day, in Rome, Tuesday, Nov. 2, 2021. (Credit: ...

PARIS (AP) — A ceremony has taken place at a Jewish cemetery in eastern France where 37 gravestones and a monument to Holocaust victims were sprayed with anti-Semitic graffiti. Interior minister ...

In his endeavors to design a tailored program to rehabilitate and restore the Seychelles national monuments, the Seychelles Minister for Tourism and Culture, Alain St.Ange, rallied his technocrats of ...

The French embassy said it moved a memorial in a Kosovo cemetery honouring Serbian soldiers who died in World War I and the early 20th Century Balkan Wars after it caused “controversy”, and installed ...