1.   These traditional rites are performed only by the women of the village.

2.   Competing for converts, many Protestant sects roundly denounced traditional African religious rites as the work of the devil.

3.   A traditional religious rite performed Thursday foretells the demise of the Khmer Rouge guerrilla movement, King Norodom Sihanouk said.

4.   APTV will have pictures of the Songkran Festival, featuring that famous traditional rite of water throwing.

5.   Orthodox priests performed traditional religious rites at the site on Saturday.

6.   Orthodox priests performed traditional religious rites for the dead at the site Saturday.

7.   The Chinese government permits only a state-sponsored Catholic church that ordains its own clergy and bans baptism and many other traditional church rites.

8.   The discovery of the urn led to a court battle by his great grandson for the right to dispose of the ashes with traditional Hindu rites.

9.   The government has repeatedly assured families of servicemen that casualties will be quickly ferried home for traditional family burial rites, a cornerstones of tribal custom in Zimbabwe.

10.   The Orthodox churches of Eastern Europe have preserved traditional rites and liturgies, and services have not changed for centuries.