Cremation

Three more bodies were found buried in the illegal cemetery near Klisura and Bankya.

This was reported by Nova TV, stating that the Sofia City Prosecutor's Office has confirmed it. Expert examinations will prove the gender and identity of the victims of the funeral agent Georgi Enev.

Seven bodies of elderly people were found buried near the village of Klisura, near the capital Sofia. The Ministry of Interior confirmed that these were unregulated funerals. There is a detainee in the case.

According to unofficial information, the bodies belong to elderly people who were placed in hospices and had to be cremated after their death.

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Rome, Italy: cemeteries packed, protests of undertakers

A grateful family returned to Cyprus this week and scattered their son's ashes two days after thieves had a change of heart and returned a stolen urn.

The Holy Synod of the Church of Greece will be launching a campaign to inform the Greek public of the reasons for its opposition to cremation as a means of disposing of the dead, it decided at a meeting on Wednesday.

The Church has a duty to follow the scriptures on the issue, it said, pointing to the teachings of Christ's resurrection.

Fifteen years after cremations were legalized in Greece, the country's first such facility has opened in Ritsona on the island of Evia, and has already carried out 15 cremations.

Licensed in the summer of 2018 and inaugurated on September 30, the private venture is 70 percent owned by Crem Services SA. The nongovernmental Greek Cremation Society (GCS) holds a 30 percent stake.

The leader of centrist Potami, Stavros Theodorakis, said on Tuesday Greece needs to speed up the establishment of cremation sites so that people will stop sending their dead to Bulgaria where the procedure is allowed.

WARSAW, POLAND—A team led by Agnieszka Tomas of the Institute of Archaeology at the University of Warsaw excavated two graves found near Novae, a Roman legion camp in northern Bulgaria, according to a report in Science in Poland.

"I hope you never have to experience anything like it, my dears." A friend's mother passed away recently. Up until her death, when she was more than 90 years old, she had insisted that her body be cremated, having gone through the painful experience of burying her father's remains when she was 40. The family obliged, transporting her body to Bulgaria, where she was cremated.

Two days after the government submitted to Parliament a draft presidential decree expected to pave the way for the construction of Greece's first state-run crematorium, Interior Minister Panos Skourletis on Friday heralded a bill that would allow the creation of private crematoriums.