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Inside the Universalist Unitarian Church of Riverside, a line of masked people filed into the red-lighted chapel, one by one, to take part in the rite of confession.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 4, 2026

College student Zara Hawkins, 17, agrees attending feels like a rite of passage for teenagers in the UK, and she is "really excited" for her first time at Leeds Festival.

From BBC ● Aug. 28, 2026

The funeral was marked by the ritual sacrifice of two horses as part of the marapu rite, which most inhabitants of Sumba still follow, whether Christian or Muslim.

From Barron's ● Jul. 21, 2026

Visiting Israel has been a bipartisan rite for members of Congress for decades.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 11, 2026

I’ll be the youngest person on the Ranch to go through the rite of passage, and it’s like people are starting to actually see me now.

From "The Wrong Way Home" by Kate O’Shaughnessy

It’s not easy to find analogies that can reanimate the importance of burial rites to a modern audience.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026

After days of searching shelters and mortuaries, relatives of some of the missing lost hope and began conducting last rites.

From Barron's ● Sep. 2, 2026

It made up for missed teenage rites of passage — the senior prom, the homecoming dance, the debutante ball — by doubling down on sentimentality.

From Salon ● Jul. 9, 2026

Funeral rites involving contact with the deceased have played a major role in the spread of Ebola during previous outbreaks, making safe burials a key way of limiting further spread of the disease.

From BBC ● Jul. 9, 2026

Two priests on bicycles also arrived to bless the mortal remains of Pedro Garcia and oversee the funeral rites.

From "The House of the Spirits: A Novel" by Isabel Allende