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| | CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Africa (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31) |
 | | In the hereafter, the spirits or shadows of kings, chiefs, witch-doctors, of great men, rich and powerful, being set free from the bodies to which they were united, wander through space until they find another body into which to enter. |
 | | At the present day, however, they carry on no religious propaganda, but are satisfied with keeping their Israelitish worship intact, in communities more or less numerous and faithful, under the guidance of rabbis of various classes -- officiating rabbis, sacrificing rabbis, who attend to circumcision, rabbi notaries, and grand rabbis. |
 | | Another was established at Ceuta, after its capture by John I, King of Portugal (1418) Catholic chapels existed at Oran, Tlemcen, Bona, Bougie, Tunis, Tripoli, etc.; that is to say wherever the factories or counting-houses of Spanish, Italian, or French merchants were to be found. |
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