Viewfinder: A Remembrance Service for the Christchurch Victims

Author:: Pacific Standard Staff
Publish date:: Mar 29, 2019

Guests and members of the public look on during a National Remembrance Service at Waitangi Park on March 29th, 2019, in Wellington, New Zealand. Fifty people were killed, and dozens were injured, in Christchurch on March 15th, when a gunman opened fire at the Al Noor and Linwood Mosques. The attack was the worst mass shooting in New Zealand's history.
(Photo: Hagen Hopkins/Getty Images)

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Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern speaks to media during a press conference at New Zealand's parliament on March 21st, 2019, in Wellington, New Zealand. Ardern announced Thursday that New Zealand will ban all military-style semi-automatics and assault rifles.

Communities across continents held vigils, protests, moments of silence, and prayer services.

A man lights candles at a vigil on December 13th, 2018, in memory of the victims of an attack near the Christmas market of Strasbourg in France.

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Funeral cars carrying bodies leave the public school where two former students opened fire on March 13th, 2019, in Suzano, Brazil.

Ashley Schuck of Nevada places a medal from Saturday's Vegas Strong 5k on a cross set up for shooting victim Neysa Tonks on October 1st, 2018, in Las Vegas, Nevada. Retired carpenter Greg Zanis, who installed 58 crosses last year—one for each person killed—set up the memorial again with new crosses for the massacre's anniversary. On October 1st, 2017, Stephen Paddock opened fire on the Route 91 Harvest Country Music Festival, killing 58 people and injuring more than 800 in the deadliest mass shooting event in modern United States history.

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Retired carpenter Greg Zanis, who installed 58 crosses last year—one for each person killed—set up the memorial again with new crosses for the massacre's anniversary.

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People arrive for a vigil at the Allegheny County Soldiers Memorial in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, on October 28th, 2018.

Students gather at a gun control rally at the U.S. Capitol on March 14th, 2019, on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C. Students from area high schools participated in the event to mark the one-year anniversary of a nationwide gun violence walkout protest that was prompted by the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida.

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Students gather at a gun control rally at the West Front of the U.S. Capitol on March 14th, 2019, on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C.

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