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But local police station chief inspector Hasan Hafizur Rahman said the 50-year-old man was "a temple volunteer who helps conduct prayers".

Shyamananda Das, who helped to conduct prayers at the Radhamadan Gopal Bigraha Math in Jhenaidah district, was killed by three men on a motorcycle as he was walking on a highway adjacent to his temple early in the morning, police said.

The Rev. Vladimir Pakhomov, the minister of the Methodist church, recalled a warning from an F.S.B. officer to one of his parishioners: " 'Protestantism is facing difficult times — or maybe its end.' " Most Protestant churches are required under the law to register with the government in order to do anything more than conduct prayers in an apartment.

Although the case name suggested ritualistic murders, the defendants said they did not conduct prayers, burning of joss sticks, ringing of bells, or any other rituals during the killings.

Spiritual leaders from all major faiths conducted prayers and healing rituals.

Although many school boards in Louisiana ignored the law, one district, in West Monroe, conducted prayers over school intercoms for years, until June 2000.

The 81-year-old Benedict was steady, if characteristically shy and self-contained, as he conducted prayers and greeted the faithful.

He was one of two reformist Parsi priests banished by community leaders from the Towers of Silence six years ago for conducting prayers for the few people who chose alternative methods of disposal.

In the sanctuary, which had been created out of two bedrooms, worshippers passed around a photograph of Simha taken in Baghdad, in 1941, while the cantor conducted prayers in an Aramaic-inflected dialect particular to Iraqi Judaism.

Protected by a colourful parasol held by a retainer, he conducted prayers, scattered holy water about and finally put a torch to a bonfire of straw to signify the start of the festival before hosting an open-air dinner for his several hundred guests.

There are no supporters barring a family that is conducting prayers outside the building, our correspondent says.