31.   The government currently recognizes six religions, including the smaller Protestant Evangelical Church group in the north, and has grown more tolerant of religious worship in recent years.

32.   The small Roman Catholic community in Hong Kong represents an important test between the Vatican and China, which bans all religious worship outside state-sponsored churches.

33.   They moved through the arctic with their flocks and depended on reindeer for food, clothing and transport and even as objects of religious worship.

34.   Yeltsin said the project symbolized how far Russia come since the Soviet era, when religious worship was officially outlawed and many churches were razed.