World Falls Silent for Victims of London Bombings

By Pauline J. Chang, Christian Post Reporter Thursday, July 14, 2005

Millions around the world joined a two-minute silence today to pray and pay tribute to the victims of last week’s London bombings.

Office workers filled the streets alongside construction workers and taxis and busses pulled over to remember the 52 people who died from the blasts.

Meanwhile, according to the Vatican, Pope Benedict XVI, on vacation in the Italian Alps, prayed for peace

Tributes were also paid in Madrid, Spain and Bali, Indonesia – both past victims of terrorist attacks. Accordingly, New York, Washington D.C. and Pennsylvania – the locations struck on September 11, 2001 – held the moment of silence.

"The people of Great Britain were there for New Yorkers and Americans in the days and weeks after September 11 and we proudly come together with our friends and neighbours in Virginia and Pennsylvania in this show of support of our friends in Great Britain," said New York Governor George Pataki, according to CNN. "Our hearts go out to those who lost loved ones last week."

Silence was also observed in Paris, Brussels, Sweden and in predominantly Muslim Turkey.