A growing crowd of mourners are singing hymns and praying outside Notre Dame. They have been singing for almost two hours, and the hymns are getting louder as more and more people join in.
It's past 11 p.m. in Paris, but the crowds of Notre Dame mourners haven't gone anywhere -- many are still gathered outside the cathedral, praying and singing hymns.
For generations, Notre Dame has been a place of pilgrimage and prayer, and, even as religion in France has declined for decades, it remained the beating heart of French Catholicism, open every day for Mass.: Notre Dame is not a parish church, meaning that it does not have a regular body of worshippers who"belong" to the church.
"Notre Dame is one of the world’s great treasures, and we’re thinking of the people of France in your time of grief. It’s in our nature to mourn when we see history lost -- but it’s also in our nature to rebuild for tomorrow, as strong as we can," he said.UN Secretary-General António Guterres said he is"horrified" to see the images coming out of Paris.
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