BOB ABERNETHY, anchor: Shock and grief across the nation this week after the deadly shooting rampage at Virginia Tech on Monday (April 16). Virginia Governor Tim Kaine declared this past Friday (April 20) a day of mourning. Kaine joined President Bush and other leaders at a special campus convocation Tuesday (April 17). He recalled the biblical example of Job:

Virginia Governor TIM KAINE: He was angry at his circumstances. He was angry at his Creator. He argued with God. He didn't lose his faith. But it's okay to argue. It's okay to be angry. Those emotions are natural.

ABERNETHY: In the wake of the tragedy, many students and their families sought comfort in faith. Lucky Severson has our report on those offering spiritual support to the devastated Virginia Tech community.

UNIDENTIFIED MAN #1: We just long to see your presence here at Virginia Tech, Lord.

LUCKY SEVERSON: Days after the one they won't forget, Virginia Tech students gathered on the drill field in prayer circles, to remember and pray for the friends they lost.

UNIDENTIFIED WOMAN: They loved their son, I'm sure, just like I love my children, Lord.

SEVERSON: Their first prayer was for the family of the killer and that there would not be a backlash against Koreans living in this country.

UNIDENTIFIED MAN #2: We're not here for a show. Just ignore the media that's here. And I ask the media if you would respect these groups to pray and seek comfort and guidance from God.

SEVERSON: With cameras in their faces they prayed for the future when the cameras would be gone and they could move on with their lives.

DENNY NISSLEY (Christ in Action Ministries): What I do is I share with them that there is a hope and a future. They're not going to be able to get their life back to normal, but what we want to do is help them create a new normal.

SEVERSON: Pastor Denny Nissley is one of dozens of other pastors here from near and far, representing several different religions. There are many international students here. Some were among those killed.

KHALED ADJERID (Student, Virginia Tech University): In the Qu'ran it says that if a person kills one human life, it is as if he has killed all of mankind. And if someone has saved one human life, it is as if he saved all of mankind.

Reverend FRANKLIN GRAHAM (Billy Graham Evangelistic Association): I pray for the men and women standing in this circle even though they may represent other faiths.

SEVERSON: Reverend Franklin Graham was here along with 20 other ministers from the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association, trying to answer some difficult questions.

Rev, GRAHAM: They're angry. Where's God? I mean, why did he allow this to happen?

BRIAN POTERE (Student, Virginia Tech University): You just ask why, and you just ask yourself, "God, why would you do something like this? Couldn't you have stopped it?"

Rev. GRAHAM: God loves us. He's provided us a way to be with him in heaven. But there is a devil. There is evil in this world, and we have seen the face of evil manifest itself right here on this campus Monday. Lucifer, the devil, or whatever you want to name him, is real.

KATIE BUBB (Student, Virginia Tech University): They said yesterday at convocation that no good can come unless there's evil. So we had our evil on Monday at 9:30 in the morning. By 10:30 in the morning there was good coming from it.

SEVERSON: She means good because of the way the community has come together. This was a candlelight ceremony that began in solemn remembrance and ended in a rousing school chant.