Cemetery Vigils, Day of the Dead, Tzintzuntzan, near Patzcuaro, Michoacan state, Mexico, North America

Liturgy commemorating victims of the 1932-1933 Holodomor (Famine) and Russian-Ukrainian war started 2014, Madeleine Basilica, Paris, France

Liturgy commemorating victims of the 1932-1933 Holodomor (Famine) and Russian-Ukrainian war started 2014, Madeleine Basilica, Paris, France

Gold seated Buddha statue, Heavenly King Hall, Jade Buddha Temple, Yufo Si, Shanghai, China, Asia

Gold seated Buddha statue, Heavenly King Hall, Jade Buddha temple, Yufo Si, Shanghai, China, Asia

Memorial candles and children's drawings at the tomb of Yitzak Rabin in Jerusalem, Israel, Middle East

Michale JAckson Memorial, Bayrischer Hof, Munich, Upper Bavaria, Bavaria, Germany

Mass graves in Ploetzensee, partly unknown dead from the last months of the second world war, Berlin, Germany, Europe

Rampage at Albertville Realschule school, memorial place, Winnenden, Baden-Wuerttemberg, Germany, Europe

Killing spree, Albertville Realschule school, memorial site, Winnenden, Baden-Wuerttemberg, Germany, Europe

Michael Jackson memorial at the Bayerischer Hof Hotel, Munich, Bavaria, Germany, Europe

Candles in front of the Pharaoh's treasure house, struck in rock, at night, facade of the treasure house Al-Khazneh, Khazne Faraun, mausoleum in the Nabataean city Petra, near Wadi Musa, Jordan, Asia

People sitting in front of candles, Pharaoh's treasure house beaten into rock at night, facade of the treasure house Al-Khazneh, Khazne Faraun, mausoleum in the Nabataean city of Petra, near Wadi Musa, Jordan, Asia

Candles in front of the Pharaoh's treasure house, struck in rock, at night, view from above into the gorge, facade of the treasure house Al-Khazneh, Khazne Faraun, mausoleum in the Nabataean city of Petra, near Wadi Musa, Jordan, Asia

Wall with icons, Ganina Yama monastery, memorial site, place where the corpses of the murdered family of Tsar Nicholas II of Russia were found in 1991, Yekaterinburg, Jekaterinburg, Sverdlovsk, Russia

Wall with grave lights in memory of the Polish concentration camp victims, inscription Poland, Wall of Nations, Memorial, Ravensbrueck Women's Concentration Camp, Fuerstenberg-Havel, Brandenburg, Germany, Europe

1st anniversary of the massacre of Winnenden-Wendlingen, a path of pebbles with messages for the way into the future, Winnenden, Baden-Wuerttemberg, Germany, Europe

Memorial place of the 1st anniversary of the massacre of Winnenden and Wendlingen, Winnenden, Baden-Wuerttemberg, Germany, Europe

Killing spree, Albertville Realschule school, memorial site, Winnenden, Baden-Wuerttemberg, Germany, Europe

Hundreds of candles to commemorate the victims of the crowd crush at the Love Parade 2010, Duisburg, Ruhr, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, Europe

Rampage at Albertville Realschule school, memorial place, Winnenden, Baden-Wuerttemberg, Germany, Europe

Rampage at Albertville Realschule school, memorial place, Winnenden, Baden-Wuerttemberg, Germany, Europe

Rampage at Albertville Realschule school, memorial place, Winnenden, Baden-Wuerttemberg, Germany, Europe

Many white candles

Hundreds of candles to commemorate the victims of the crowd crush at the Love Parade 2010, Duisburg, Ruhr, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, Europe

Rampage at Albertville Realschule school, memorial place, Winnenden, Baden-Wuerttemberg, Germany, Europe

Candles for memorial offering

Cross with candles in cathedral

Cross with candles in cathedral

Rows of candles in cathedral