That annual Samaritan sacrifice

The Samaritan's place in history is cemented in Jesus' famous parable. But their existence is on the brink. They believe they are the true followers of the Israelites religion, and only 700 of the "keepers of the law," as their name translates, remain. Today the Samaritans, "dressed in white and spattered in blood," celebrated the Passover in Mt. Gerizim, where most of the sect live. From AP, via Haaretz:

The sect's high priest opened the ceremony with a prayer in the Samaritan tongue, a dialect of ancient Hebrew. Then ritual slaughterers killed sheep, skinned them, and roasted them in large ovens. According to tradition, the meat must be ready in the middle of the night - the time that the Angel of Death killed the Egyptian firstborn in the biblical story - and the Samaritans eat it in haste along with unleavened bread, emulating the ancient Israelites.