Candle Lighting

Suzanne Lacy's "Three Weeks in January" culminates with a candle-lighting ceremony and participatory performance at the site of Lacy's Los Angeles Rape Map -- a large map installed in downtown L.A. with daily markings of LAPD rape reports. ❋ Bettina Korek (2012)

The event will honor the memory of those lost on 9/11, including 23 Greenwich residents with a 21-gun salute, music, candle-lighting ceremony, laying of flowers by the public and special tributes to the first responders who were killed. ❋ Sophia Hollander (2011)

Patriarch Kirill and Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych also are remembering the victims with prayer and a candle-lighting ceremony. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovich and Russian Orthodox Patriarch Kirill planned to commemorate the victims of the nuclear accident with prayers and candle-lighting in Kiev Monday night before traveling to the Chernobyl station on Tuesday. ❋ Unknown (2011)

The rituals of candle-lighting, positioning altars and making offerings in houses and cemeteries are the result of several cultural traditions, those of pre-Colombian origin and those introduced by the Christian Spaniards who arrived with the conquest. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Organizers say Holder will deliver the keynote address and lead the candle-lighting as the names of 116 officers who died in the line of duty last year are read. ❋ Unknown (2010)

One of the traditions of Hanukah candle-lighting that I most appreciate is that we are not to use the light for any purpose other than to bask in its beautiful and mysterious glow. ❋ Rabbi Or Rose (2010)

The "December Dilemma," for example, can force difficult choices about everything from home decor (Christmas tree, menorah, both, neither?) to worship services (Christmas eve at church or Chanukah candle-lighting at home?). ❋ Unknown (2010)

The tiny amount of oil available to light the temple's menorah unexpectedly lasted eight days, inspiring the holiday's candle-lighting ceremony and oil-fried cuisine. ❋ Josh Fleet (2010)

They included a candle-lighting show of devotion led by the prime minister, fireworks, the release of thousands of small hot-air balloons and a nighttime boat procession on Bangkok's Chao Phraya river. ❋ The Huffington Post News Team (2010)