mourners

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Before processing to the cemetery, the priest asked the mourners to believe that the girls -- whose names translate to "faith" and "love" -- were now in a better place and with God.

From Barron's • May 19, 2026

"No words of compassion can ease this pain of loss, this burden of great suffering, when one must bury young people," the priest told black-clothed mourners, weeping or clutching flowers and holding each other.

From Barron's • May 19, 2026

In tears as they walked through the village of Baysariyeh, the mourners gathered to remember Khalil, the ninth journalist killed in Lebanon this year.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 23, 2026

The night before her send-off at Gwent Crematorium, in Croesyceiliog, funeral director Kirsty Sailes bought 72 of the beef and tomato variety for mourners.

From BBC • Apr. 15, 2026

She took Matt’s hand and led him back along the line of mourners.

From "The House of the Scorpion" by Nancy Farmer