Prayers for the dead soldiers will be led by the Reverend Peter Newman, the Roman Catholic chaplain to the RMP training school at the city barracks.

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In the picturesque hilltop town of Ermera southwest of the capital Dili, a woman is near tears as she says prayers for the dead during a recent Sunday mass.

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As prayers for the dead and injured were said at Llandaff Cathedral in Cardiff, Archbishop of Wales Barry Morgan said the attacks had "shocked people from all religious communities and of none".

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In Hindu and Buddhist temples, mosques and churches, prayers are being offered for the dead and injured.

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Al-Abrash and some of his fighters gathered for prayers at the small garden where they recently buried their dead.

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Both All Hallows' Eve -- known today as Halloween -- and All Saints' Day, which follows on November 1, were designated as days to pray for dead souls that had not passed out of purgatory, in the belief that the prayers of the living will help.

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