Día de los Muertos, or Day of the Dead, is an annual Mexican celebration where families gather to honor and celebrate their ...

SAN DIEGO — Inside Kerrie Rodriguez’s tiny flower shop in southeast San Diego, a vibrant Día de los Muertos altar honors the lives of strangers, many of them victims of violence and crime. The altar ...

It wasn’t until I moved to Los Angeles and saw people from all over Mexico honoring their dead that I built my first Día de Muertos altar 13 years ago. Now, it is an annual rite I practice every Nov.

The route from the land of the dead to San Andrés Mixquic, a little town just outside Mexico City, is lined with marigolds.

Members of St. James Catholic Church created a vibrant altar, or ofrenda, to celebrate Día de los Muertos — the Day of the ...

Making a Day of the Dead Altar is a wonderful way to celebrate Dia de Los Muertos this fall. It is a real Mexican tradition ...

Sandra Manay built a Día de Muertos ofrenda outside her Hoboken, New Jersey, home to honor her late dog, Yogi. Soon, neighbors joined in, adding photos, flowers and mementos of their own pets. Now, a ...

Candles, candy and colorful flowers adorned the ofrenda a couple dozen people helped build Saturday to honor Silverio Villegas Gonzalez.

A fresh flower altar is an altar for funerals created using only fresh flowers that are also said to have originated in Kyushu or Hokkaido. It is a site that gathered various works of such a flower ...

Q. We’ve been having a bit of a debate among some parishioners and are hoping that you can help solve it. What is the rule for flowers on the altar in a Catholic church: Do they have to be fresh, or ...