VANCOUVER ISLAND (NEWS 1130) – People across Vancouver Island came together on March 22 to make people from different faiths feel welcome in the wake of the mosque shootings in New Zealand that stunned people around the world.
Youth members of the Sikh community organized a human chain to symbolically protect worshipers at a mosque in Victoria.
Up island, in Nanaimo, about a hundred non-Muslim people came to a ceremony at the local Islamic Centre, expressing support and solidarity for those in attendance.
The Vice-President of the center said the community was ‘overwhelmed’ by the response.
Events took place around the world on Friday to express solidarity with New Zealand in the wake of the March 14 attacks in Christchurch.
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