Photos: South Carolinians unite in prayer after Charleston shooting

Wednesday, June 24

Above, Bishop Robert E. Guglielmone, at left, helps Barbara Thompson, from Manning, SC, while she struggled in the heat during the nearly 2 1/2 hour wait in line to view Senator Clementa C. Pinckney inside the state capital building. Sen. Pinckney was one of nine people shot and killed at Emanuel AME Church in Charleston on June 17.

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Bishop Robert E. Guglielmone, center, offered a prayer while paying his respects to Senator Clementa C. Pinckney inside the South Carolina state capitol building Wednesday, June 24, 2015. Right of the Bishop is Father Richard Wilson, parochial vicar at St. Joseph Church in Columbia, and at far right is Father Andrew Trapp, administrator of Transfiguration Church in Blythewood and St. Theresa in Winnsboro.

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Bishop Robert E. Guglielmone, center, offered a prayer while paying his respects to Senator Clementa C. Pinckney inside the South Carolina state capitol building Wednesday, June 24, 2015. Right of the Bishop is Father Richard Wilson.

Photos: Miscellany/Mic Smith


Monday, June 22

An ecumenical prayer service led by Father Michael Okere, pastor of St. Martin de Porres Church in Columbia and diocesan Vicar for Black Catholics, was held in honor of the victims of the shooting at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston.

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Photos: Courtesy of the Diocese of Charleston


Sunday, June 21

Bishop Robert E. Guglielmone leads hundreds of participants in praying the rosary outside Emanuel AME Church at 7 p.m. Father Henry Kulah from St. Patrick and Father Dennis Willey from Sacred Heart churches also participated. In the third photo, Yvonne Orr, a member of St. Patrick, speaks to the crowd.

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Photos: Courtesy of the Diocese of Charleston


Friday, June 19

Members of the Manna Life Center lead a community prayer service at Neighborhood House in Charleston, which is part of Our Lady of Mercy Community Outreach Center. They prayed for the victims of the shootings, and the children who lost their parents. Outside of Emanuel AME Church, people continue to leave memorials showing their support.

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Photos: Miscellany/Victoria Wain