Rituals seen as comfort to Old Believers

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People arrive Jan. 8, 2008, at the Russian Orthodox Church in the Old Believers village of Razdolna, near Homer, to attend the funeral of five church members who were killed when their small plane crashed Jan. 5 off Kodiak.

SCOTT DICKERSON / The Associated Press

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