1.   At night on the veranda they weave rattan for furniture and baskets until the wee hours, smoking homemade cigarettes, chatting and singing prayers.

2.   A Navajo medicine man is singing a prayer for health.

3.   Chanting in melodic tones, cantors sing ancient prayers, often for peace, happiness and sustenance.

4.   On a recent Friday at Ejido Sarmiento, a group of two dozen women sang solemn prayers as they walked the Stations of the Cross.

5.   Prayers were sung, speeches made.

6.   Today, however, his wife, Alicia, wears Star of David earrings and leads Shabbat services, singing prayers in Hebrew.

7.   As John Paul left, a guitar-backed choir from Cairo sang a prayer in Arabic, in old words that sounded almost exactly like Hebrew.

8.   At the brief ceremony, relatives sat on plastic chairs or stood on the runway as a rabbi chanted psalms and a cantor sang a prayer for the dead.

9.   But the pope sang prayers and switched languages easily to greet people from former Soviet territories in their native tongues.

10.   But the pope sang prayers and switched languages easily to greet thousands who came from former Soviet territories in their native tongues.