Hundreds attend vigil for Sandy Hook shooting victims at National Cathedral
Source: AFP
Hundreds solemnly gathered in Washington’s National Cathedral on Thursday to mark the first anniversary of the Newtown school massacre and demand tougher laws to combat gun violence in the United States.
Pop icon Carole King was lined up to perform her 1977 song “In the Name of Love” at the late-afternoon vigil, which organizers hoped would pull the media spotlight away from the New England town where 20 first-grade pupils and six educators were killed.
Several Newtown residents, including relatives of the dead, were expected at the vigil spearheaded by the Newtown Foundation, a non-profit group that calls for tougher gun laws.
“As Christians, we follow one who died at the hands of human violence,” said the Episcopal cathedral’s dean Gary Hall, who noted that 32,000 have died this year in the United States in firearm-related incidents.
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