The subjects of reincarnation and what happens after death are hotly debated. Some people believe that nothing happens when we die, others believe in heaven and hell, and still others believe in the concept of reincarnation – that we come back in another form after we die.
For the Druze people in the Middle East, reincarnation is very much a part of their beliefs and practices. It is customary for elders to take a child to the home of his previous life if he remembers it, and they believe that birthmarks are related to past-life deaths.
So when a three-year-old boy in the Golan Heights region near the border of Syria and Israel told his parents he had been murdered in a previous life, they didn’t discount his story. Read the full story here ▶