1.   Grieving members of the Weimar United Church of Christ, fighting back tears, stooped under a hot sun and planted rows of bright flowers in the church courtyard.

2.   I am taken by the soothing afternoon light that soaked the building until my eyes fall upon six wooden crosses protruding from the church courtyard.

3.   The residents mingled in the church courtyard Wednesday morning after Hezbollah rode through their town shooting in the air.

4.   Waiting in the church courtyard, we gawked and made note of the famous mourners.

5.   Palestinians inside the church said by telephone that an Israeli sniper shot one man walking in the church courtyard Saturday, wounding him in the abdomen.

6.   Palestinians inside the church said by telephone that Israeli snipers shot one man walking in the church courtyard Saturday, wounding him in the abdomen.

7.   On Wednesday, Mexican soldiers wearing blue masks over their mouths sweated under the noon sun to lift boulders that had fallen from toppled domes into church courtyards.

8.   The service was held in the church courtyard.