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NM church members start victims fund after attack
NM church members start victims fun after attack
1 dead, 44 injured in blast in Tanzania church
Tanzanian church blast kills one, wounds 57
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NM church members start victims fund after attack

Posted: 05 May 2013 04:12 PM PDT

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Members of a Catholic church where three people were stabbed during Mass a week ago launched an effort on Sunday to raise money for victims hurt in the attack.

NM church members start victims fun after attack

Posted: 05 May 2013 03:15 PM PDT

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Members of a Catholic church where three people were stabbed during Mass a week ago launched an effort on Sunday to raise money for victims hurt in the attack.

1 dead, 44 injured in blast in Tanzania church

Posted: 05 May 2013 08:50 AM PDT

ZANZIBAR, Tanzania (AP) — A woman died and 44 people were seriously wounded when a bomb exploded in a Roman Catholic church in northern Tanzania, a Tanzanian police official said Sunday

Tanzanian church blast kills one, wounds 57

Posted: 05 May 2013 08:24 AM PDT

DAR ES SALAAM (Reuters) - A suspected bomb attack on a new Catholic church in the northern Tanzanian town of Arusha killed at least one person and wounded dozens of others on Sunday, police said. The Vatican's ambassador to Tanzania, Archbishop Francisco Montecillo Padilla, was attending the official opening of the church when the explosion occurred, but escaped unharmed. If a bomb blast is proven, it will mark an escalation in sectarian tensions in east Africa's second biggest economy. "Some kind of explosion went off at the church. ...