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• Texas residents seek healing at church after deadly blast
• Texas church holds service in hayfield after blast
• Church in West held in field, pastor on flatbed
• Pope taps cardinals to advise on governing, reform

Texas residents seek healing at church after deadly blast Posted: 21 Apr 2013 02:52 PM PDT By Tim Gaynor and Colleen Jenkins WEST, Texas (Reuters) - Hundreds of residents of this close-knit Texas town sought healing at church services on Sunday, as one school was readied to reopen and authorities located the center but not the cause of last week's deadly fertilizer plant blast. About 200 people in the town of West - including farmers, military veterans and migrant workers - packed into the Church of the Assumption in the center of the town for Catholic mass early on Sunday. ...

Texas church holds service in hayfield after blast Posted: 21 Apr 2013 11:41 AM PDT WEST, Texas (AP) — On the first Sunday after a fertilizer plant explosion leveled part of a tiny Texas town, pastor John Crowder stood atop a long flatbed overlooking a hayfield and spoke to his congregation.

Church in West held in field, pastor on flatbed Posted: 21 Apr 2013 09:07 AM PDT WEST, Texas (AP) — A church in a rural Texas town is holding Sunday worship in a hayfield since its building is blocked off due to the massive fertilizer blast.

Pope taps cardinals to advise on governing, reform Posted: 13 Apr 2013 11:26 AM PDT VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis named eight cardinals from around the globe Saturday to advise him on running the Catholic Church and reforming the Vatican bureaucracy, marking his first month as pope with a major initiative to reflect the universal nature of the church in key governing decisions.

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