Worshippers come together at a Christchurch cathedral after a multi-faith church service due to be held in the city is cancelled on security grounds in the wake of the deadly mosque shootings.
"The police asked us to refrain and do that later because it just wouldn't be helpful at this time because they're so busy," Anglican Dean Laurence Kimberley said.
"I think that it's really important that the Christian community makes a statement and that statement needs to be a counter narrative that's about love, compassion and reaching out to our Muslim brothers and sisters to say that we stand with them," he said.
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