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Radial function approximation and (quasi) interpolation on spheres, including problems related to positive definiteness was discusssed. It was shown that geometric homogeneity of the sphere and some basic functional analysis can be used to replace the dependence on classical facts about spherical harmonics by more easily remembered facts about ordinary polynomials. The approximation or interpolation by translates of radial functions on spheres given by the author previously (\textit{D. L. Ragozin} [Math. Ann. 195, 87-94 (1972; Zbl 0221.42018)]) was generalized to translates of zonal functions on compact sub-manifolds of an Euclidean space, homogeneous under some compact groups of orthogonal matrices. Some theorems from radial kernels on spheres were generalized for zonal kernels on homogeneous symmetric spaces. For the entire collection see [Zbl 0927.00038].