Candlelight vigil

A candlelight vigil or candlelit vigil or candlelight service is an assembly of people carrying candles, held after sunset in order to pray, show support for a specific cause, or remember the dead, in which case, the event is often called a candlelight memorial.

[1] Such events may be held to protest the suffering of some marginalized group of people.

A large candlelight vigil may have invited speakers with a public address system and may be covered by local or national media.

[1] On Christmas Eve many churches hold a candlelight vigil.

[3] In South Korea, the Candlelight vigils,[4] or Candlelight protests[5] is a symbolic collective gathering of political dissent in South Korea to combat injustice peacefully.