Friday's call to prayers for Muslims in New Zealand will be broadcast nationally and there will be a two minute silence on Friday
Friday's call to prayers for Muslims in New Zealand will be broadcast nationally and there will be a two minute silence on Friday, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern announced.
New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern meets with first responders to the mass killings at the Majid Al Noor and Linwood Islamic Centre in Christchurch."There is a desire to show support for the Muslim community as they return to mosques on Friday," she said. Zaid Mustafa, 13, in a wheelchair recovering from a gunshot wound to his leg, tried to stand for prayers as his father Khaled and older brother Hamza, 15, became the first buried.An injured Zaed Mustafa - his brother of Hamza and son of Khalid Mustafa who were killed in the Friday March 15 mosque shootings.So rapid in succession were the burials, some mourners paying respects to one person had to run from the burial plots to a marquee across the lawn in time to pray for the next.
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