On Saturdays, we have services and bury the dead and have funeral rites and on Sundays we have thanksgiving services.

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Meanwhile, a patient who was told she was dying and given the last rites, but who went on to make a full recovery, has had her complaint upheld by the SPSO.

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The changes gave the church full legal status, removed restrictions on its rites, and allowed priests to vote.

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The idea that we should be reading the last rites for the City and the UK's financial services industry, because of new constraints on how and what top bankers are paid, doesn't seem quite right in the context of the announcement today by JP Morgan of substantial new investments in London.

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On the other hand, perhaps Italians might decide that the time had at last come to grant their hero the funeral rites that he had desired.

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Foreign Secretary David Miliband told Adam Boulton on Sky there were only a few "rites of passage" needed before the Lisbon Treaty came into force and accused Mr Cameron of "dithering" because he did not "want to take on the euro extremists" in his party.

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We decided early in the day that we needed to capture the hustle and bustle of the pilgrims' departure -- to give CNN International viewers a sense of how these millions of people, from all walks of life, with relative order: proceed on their way to perform rites that their co-religionists had instructed them in the seventh century.

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On Lunar New Year and the autumn harvest holiday Chuseok, the entire country takes part in ancestor rites.

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