| NOUN | a vigil | vigils |
| SYNO | vigil | watch |
NOUN article.ind sg | pl
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- A candlelight vigil or candlelit vigil is an outdoor assembly of people carrying candles, held after sunset in order to show support for a specific cause.
- Portantino attended a December 2022 candlelight vigil hosted by glendaleOUT to mourn and remember LGBTQ+ deaths. The vigil raised funds for the Transgender Law Center and Pink Armenia.
- Kassakhian attended a December 2022 candlelight vigil hosted by glendaleOUT to mourn and remember LGBTQ+ deaths. The vigil raised funds for the Transgender Law Center and Pink Armenia.
- Barry was memorialized in a vigil on August 9, 2021. It was held under the tree she was most often spotted in near the Central Park Boathouse. Hundreds attended her vigil.
- On December 26, a vigil for Hill was held at the Brentnell Community Center in North East Columbus.
- #Resign_ParkGeun-hye candlelight vigil (Korean: ) was the first candlelight vigil held on October 29, 2016, to demand resignation of President Park Geun-hye.
- On the evening of March 8, 2016, hundreds of students gathered in front of Willard Straight Hall to honor Garrett with a candlelight vigil.
- A group calling itself "Buddhists Questioning Bodu Bala Sena" staged a peaceful candle-lit vigil on 12 April 2013 outside the BBS's headquarters at Sri Sambuddha Jayanthi Mandira.
- The White House Peace Vigil is an anti-nuclear weapons peace vigil started by William Thomas in 1981.
- On 21 March 2008, the Kurdish New Year (Newroz) a school class held a 5 minute vigil in memory of the 2004 Qamishli riots. The participants were investigated for holding the vigil.
- Thomas and Concepcion Picciotto are founders of the White House Peace Vigil, which is the longest running anti-nuclear peace vigil in US history, at Lafayette Square.
- On 31 August 2009, a cousin of Nir Katz – together with the Vancouver Hillel Foundation – organized a candlelight vigil in honour of the victims at the Vancouver Art Gallery in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
- Having been inspired by the Sermon on the Mount, Thomas launched the White House Peace Vigil in 1981; the longest running peace vigil in US history.
- Wild condemned the approach of the Metropolitan Police to the Sarah Everard vigil, saying "policing is by consent" and that "tonight the Police have failed [...] the scenes of women being manhandled at a vigil are appalling".
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