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Vigils Against Violence held its annual end-of-the year vigil on Sunday for the 20 people killed in Raleigh during 2005.Pastor David Amidon, president of the Interfaith Alliance of Wake County, said the ceremony, in the Pullen Memorial Baptist Church chapel, was meant to "lift up the importance of each life in our community."Several friends and family members of the victims attended. The service included prayers in different faiths and a ritual of remembrance during which each victim's name was read aloud.Photographs of the victims and newspaper articles about the homicides were placed at the front of the chapel.Vigils Against Violence tries to hold a similar Sunday ceremony at the site of each murder that occurs in Raleigh.
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