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Newtown Tragedy

Religious leaders in Miami-Dade to help remember tragedy in Newtown

 

dmoskovitz@MiamiHerald.com

South Florida religious leaders will be remembering in the coming days the 20 children and six adults killed in the mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn.

On Friday, all Archdiocese of Miami schools will have a moment of prayer at 9:32 a.m. The archdiocese’s churches also will ring their bells 26 times in observance of those killed.

On Sunday, Temple Judea in Coral Gables will offer an interfaith service that will be open to anyone. Rabbi Edwin Goldberg said the idea was to offer a chance for the community to come together after what happened in Newtown.

“The point of the service is to come together and find comfort and hope,” Goldberg said.

The service will be start at 4 p.m. at Temple Judea, 5500 Granada Blvd. in Coral Gables.

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