1.  An unprecedented gathering of rap singers, music industry executives and religious officials filed into a former elementary school in Harlem Sunday to pledge their commitment to peace.

2.  A religious official ran after the youths with a stick.

3.  After several hours, police and Muslim religious officials, according to Israeli reports, reached a deal that allowed the Palestinians to leave the mosque without being arrested.

4.  Comparable statistics were not available for the Los Angeles Archdiocese, but local and national religious officials said the local retirement crisis likely mirrors the national.

5.  Earlier this month, a cardinal from Rome met Chinese religious officials while attending a conference here.

6.  Gaden enjoyably elicits the prurience of a religious official who keeps a black book of criminals and their activities, which you suspect he uses as juicy bedtime reading.

7.  Governments which compose the United Nations have to be reminded by their people, their philosophers, their eminent personalities and their religious officials that they must respond.

8.  He has a new project in mind, also involving sexual abuse by religious officials, and it has captured his imagination.

9.  He recently named a Muslim religious official, a mufti, to oversee the holy sites as a rival to a mufti chosen by King Hussein of Jordan.

10.  In some Muslim countries, the governments have attempted to choose the top religious officials.