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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.

The Alabama Supreme Court today rejected a lawsuit filed by the Governor and the Attorney General in which they sought to allow a circuit judge to continue displaying the Ten Commandments behind the bench and conducting prayers before court.

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

Apart from a family conducting prayers for the Congress party's victory in the morning, a group of around 10 supporters were the only ones to turn up through the whole day.

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.

After his party triumphed in parliamentary elections last November, Erdogan conducted prayers in the Istanbul mosque where Ottoman emperors were traditionally crowned.

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.

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.