11.   The diocese, for example, has kept open three rural parishes in the Adirondack Mountains by having one priest travel between parishes, Burke said.

12.   They include Assumption and Our Lady of Sorrows in Portland and rural parishes in Sublimity, Mill City, Verboort, Dexter, Oakridge and Seaside.

13.   Video poker was voted out in a number of rural parishes last fall, but the riverboats and the New Orleans casino were ratified by voters.

14.   While Foster was sweeping the rural parishes and predominantly white suburbs, Fields claimed the votes of tens of thousands of blacks in New Orleans and Baton Rouge.

15.   At a prayer retreat focusing on the hunger crisis, local Catholic priests in Malawi spoke of elderly people flocking to rural parishes to die.

16.   During a prayer retreat focusing on the hunger crisis, priests spoke of elderly people flocking to rural parishes to die.

17.   The Jamaican team returned from El Salvador Monday, and went straight into seclusion in the rural parish of Trelawny.

18.   Police watched as they tied red strips of cloth to trees in an open pasture in the northern rural parish of St. Peter.