Religious News Service Photographs

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Conceived by journalist Louis Minsky (1909-1957), Religious News Service (RNS) was established in 1934 as an affiliated but independently managed agency of the National Conference of Jews and Christians (later the National Conference of Christians and Jews), and was dedicated to providing authoritative and bias-free news about religion and ethics to both the secular and religious press. This collection contains photographs documenting Protestant, Catholic, Orthodox, and Jewish groups. Coverage of Protestants (especially mainline Protestants) and Catholics constitutes the bulk of the images. View the collection guide to learn more. Digitization of some of the images in this collection made possible by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities. Featured image: Father James Groppi, the civil rights activist priest from Milwaukee, and militant leader Rennie Davis are taken into custody during an anti war demonstration a block from the White House.

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Title:
Dr. Earl F. Adams & Dr. Henry J. Carpenter.
Description:
Text transcribed from notations on envelope: 3488 Dr. Earl F. Adams (left) Executive Secy - Protestant Council of the City of New York Dr. Henry J. Carpenter, Executive Secy of Brooklyn Church & Mission Federation
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., Protestant Council of the City of New York., Carpenter, J. Henry (Julius Henry), 1893-1954., Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A.--Clergy., Brooklyn Church and Mission Federation., Adams, Earl F.
Topics:
Congresses and conventions--New York (State)--New York., World War, 1939-1945--Veterans--Congresses., Church work with veterans--Congresses.
Geographic subjects:
New York (N.Y.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:359445
Title:
Dr. J. Henry Carpenter, Executive Secretary of the Brooklyn Church and Mission Federation.
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., Carpenter, J. Henry (Julius Henry), 1893-1954., Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A.--Clergy., Brooklyn Church and Mission Federation., Protestant Council of the City of New York.
Topics:
Clergy--New York (State)--New York., Congresses and conventions--New York (State)--New York., World War, 1939-1945--Veterans--Congresses., Church work with veterans--Congresses.
Geographic subjects:
New York (N.Y.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:359444
Title:
Dr. John Pearson, Chairman of Servicemen's Council.
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., Protestant Council of the City of New York., Pearson, John.
Topics:
Congresses and conventions--New York (State)--New York., World War, 1939-1945--Veterans--Congresses., Church work with veterans--Congresses.
Geographic subjects:
New York (N.Y.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:359443
Title:
Dr. Reinhold Niebuhr.
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., Protestant Council of the City of New York., Niebuhr, Reinhold, 1892-1971., Union Theological Seminary (New York, N.Y.)--Faculty.
Topics:
Congresses and conventions--New York (State)--New York., World War, 1939-1945--Veterans--Congresses., Church work with veterans--Congresses., Ethicists--New York (State)--New York.
Geographic subjects:
New York (N.Y.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:359442
Title:
Dr. Robbin W. Barstow, Secretary for Reconstruction of the American Committee of the World Council of Churches.
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., Protestant Council of the City of New York., Barstow, Robbins Wolcott., World Council of Churches. Department of Reconstruction.
Topics:
Congresses and conventions--New York (State)--New York., World War, 1939-1945--Veterans--Congresses., Church work with veterans--Congresses.
Geographic subjects:
New York (N.Y.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:359441
Title:
Reinhold Niebuhr.
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., Protestant Council of the City of New York., Niebuhr, Reinhold, 1892-1971., Union Theological Seminary (New York, N.Y.)--Faculty.
Topics:
Congresses and conventions--New York (State)--New York., World War, 1939-1945--Veterans--Congresses., Church work with veterans--Congresses., Ethicists--New York (State)--New York.
Geographic subjects:
New York (N.Y.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:359423
Title:
Conference discusses veteran and church.
Description:
Text transcribed from caption: CONFERENCE DISCUSSES VETERAN AND CHURCH #3444 NEW YORK -- Veterans and church leaders are shown at the conference on The Veteran at Work in The Church sponsored by the Protestant Council of the City of New York. Among those who took part in the program were Dr. Reinhold Niebuhr, professor of applied Christianity, Union Theological Seminary; the Rev. Reuben W. Coleman, executive secretary of the Commission on the Church’s Ministry to Returning Servicemen and Women of the Federal Council of Churches, and Dr. Robbins W. Barstow, secretary for reconstruction of the American Committee of the World Council of Churches. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (BH-NY-MES-5A-6-W)
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., Protestant Council of the City of New York.
Topics:
Congresses and conventions--New York (State)--New York., World War, 1939-1945--Veterans--Congresses., Church work with veterans--Congresses.
Geographic subjects:
New York (N.Y.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:359422
Title:
Conference discusses veteran and church.
Description:
Text transcribed from caption: CONFERENCE DISCUSSES VETERAN AND CHURCH #3444 NEW YORK -- Veterans and church leaders are shown at the conference on The Veteran at Work in The Church sponsored by the Protestant Council of the City of New York. Among those who took part in the program were Dr. Reinhold Niebuhr, professor of applied Christianity, Union Theological Seminary; the Rev. Reuben W. Coleman, executive secretary of the Commission on the Church’s Ministry to Returning Servicemen and Women of the Federal Council of Churches, and Dr. Robbins W. Barstow, secretary for reconstruction of the American Committee of the World Council of Churches. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (BH-NY-MES-5A-6-W)
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., Protestant Council of the City of New York.
Topics:
Congresses and conventions--New York (State)--New York., World War, 1939-1945--Veterans--Congresses., Church work with veterans--Congresses.
Geographic subjects:
New York (N.Y.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:359421
Title:
Conference discusses veteran and church.
Description:
Text transcribed from caption: CONFERENCE DISCUSSES VETERAN AND CHURCH #3444 NEW YORK -- Veterans and church leaders are shown at the conference on The Veteran at Work in The Church sponsored by the Protestant Council of the City of New York. Among those who took part in the program were Dr. Reinhold Niebuhr, professor of applied Christianity, Union Theological Seminary; the Rev. Reuben W. Coleman, executive secretary of the Commission on the Church’s Ministry to Returning Servicemen and Women of the Federal Council of Churches, and Dr. Robbins W. Barstow, secretary for reconstruction of the American Committee of the World Council of Churches. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (BH-NY-MES-5A-6-W)
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., Protestant Council of the City of New York.
Topics:
Congresses and conventions--New York (State)--New York., World War, 1939-1945--Veterans--Congresses., Church work with veterans--Congresses.
Geographic subjects:
New York (N.Y.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:359420
Title:
Conference discusses veteran and church.
Description:
Text transcribed from caption: CONFERENCE DISCUSSES VETERAN AND CHURCH #3444 NEW YORK -- Veterans and church leaders are shown at the conference on The Veteran at Work in The Church sponsored by the Protestant Council of the City of New York. Among those who took part in the program were Dr. Reinhold Niebuhr, professor of applied Christianity, Union Theological Seminary; the Rev. Reuben W. Coleman, executive secretary of the Commission on the Church’s Ministry to Returning Servicemen and Women of the Federal Council of Churches, and Dr. Robbins W. Barstow, secretary for reconstruction of the American Committee of the World Council of Churches. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (BH-NY-MES-5A-6-W)
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., Protestant Council of the City of New York.
Topics:
Congresses and conventions--New York (State)--New York., World War, 1939-1945--Veterans--Congresses., Church work with veterans--Congresses.
Geographic subjects:
New York (N.Y.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:359419
Title:
Conference discusses veteran and church.
Description:
Text transcribed from caption: CONFERENCE DISCUSSES VETERAN AND CHURCH #3444 NEW YORK -- Veterans and church leaders are shown at the conference on The Veteran at Work in The Church sponsored by the Protestant Council of the City of New York. Among those who took part in the program were Dr. Reinhold Niebuhr, professor of applied Christianity, Union Theological Seminary; the Rev. Reuben W. Coleman, executive secretary of the Commission on the Church’s Ministry to Returning Servicemen and Women of the Federal Council of Churches, and Dr. Robbins W. Barstow, secretary for reconstruction of the American Committee of the World Council of Churches. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (BH-NY-MES-5A-6-W)
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., Protestant Council of the City of New York.
Topics:
Congresses and conventions--New York (State)--New York., World War, 1939-1945--Veterans--Congresses., Church work with veterans--Congresses.
Geographic subjects:
New York (N.Y.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:359418
Title:
Conference discusses veteran and church.
Description:
Text transcribed from caption: CONFERENCE DISCUSSES VETERAN AND CHURCH #3444 NEW YORK -- Veterans and church leaders are shown at the conference on The Veteran at Work in The Church sponsored by the Protestant Council of the City of New York. Among those who took part in the program were Dr. Reinhold Niebuhr, professor of applied Christianity, Union Theological Seminary; the Rev. Reuben W. Coleman, executive secretary of the Commission on the Church’s Ministry to Returning Servicemen and Women of the Federal Council of Churches, and Dr. Robbins W. Barstow, secretary for reconstruction of the American Committee of the World Council of Churches. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (BH-NY-MES-5A-6-W)
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., Protestant Council of the City of New York., Niebuhr, Reinhold, 1892-1971., Union Theological Seminary (New York, N.Y.)--Faculty.
Topics:
Congresses and conventions--New York (State)--New York., World War, 1939-1945--Veterans--Congresses., Church work with veterans--Congresses., Ethicists--New York (State)--New York.
Geographic subjects:
New York (N.Y.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:359417
Title:
Conference discusses veteran and church.
Description:
Text transcribed from caption: CONFERENCE DISCUSSES VETERAN AND CHURCH #3444 NEW YORK -- Veterans and church leaders are shown at the conference on The Veteran at Work in The Church sponsored by the Protestant Council of the City of New York. Among those who took part in the program were Dr. Reinhold Niebuhr, professor of applied Christianity, Union Theological Seminary; the Rev. Reuben W. Coleman, executive secretary of the Commission on the Church’s Ministry to Returning Servicemen and Women of the Federal Council of Churches, and Dr. Robbins W. Barstow, secretary for reconstruction of the American Committee of the World Council of Churches. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (BH-NY-MES-5A-6-W)
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., Protestant Council of the City of New York.
Topics:
Congresses and conventions--New York (State)--New York., World War, 1939-1945--Veterans--Congresses., Church work with veterans--Congresses.
Geographic subjects:
New York (N.Y.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:359416
Title:
Conference discusses veteran and church.
Description:
Text transcribed from caption: CONFERENCE DISCUSSES VETERAN AND CHURCH #3444 NEW YORK -- Veterans and church leaders are shown at the conference on The Veteran at Work in The Church sponsored by the Protestant Council of the City of New York. Among those who took part in the program were Dr. Reinhold Niebuhr, professor of applied Christianity, Union Theological Seminary; the Rev. Reuben W. Coleman, executive secretary of the Commission on the Church’s Ministry to Returning Servicemen and Women of the Federal Council of Churches, and Dr. Robbins W. Barstow, secretary for reconstruction of the American Committee of the World Council of Churches. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (BH-NY-MES-5A-6-W)
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., Protestant Council of the City of New York.
Topics:
Congresses and conventions--New York (State)--New York., World War, 1939-1945--Veterans--Congresses., Church work with veterans--Congresses.
Geographic subjects:
New York (N.Y.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:359415
Title:
Conference discusses veteran and church.
Description:
Text transcribed from caption: CONFERENCE DISCUSSES VETERAN AND CHURCH #3444 NEW YORK -- Veterans and church leaders are shown at the conference on The Veteran at Work in The Church sponsored by the Protestant Council of the City of New York. Among those who took part in the program were Dr. Reinhold Niebuhr, professor of applied Christianity, Union Theological Seminary; the Rev. Reuben W. Coleman, executive secretary of the Commission on the Church’s Ministry to Returning Servicemen and Women of the Federal Council of Churches, and Dr. Robbins W. Barstow, secretary for reconstruction of the American Committee of the World Council of Churches. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (BH-NY-MES-5A-6-W)
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., Protestant Council of the City of New York.
Topics:
Congresses and conventions--New York (State)--New York., World War, 1939-1945--Veterans--Congresses., Church work with veterans--Congresses.
Geographic subjects:
New York (N.Y.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:359414
Title:
Healing ministry of music.
Description:
Text transcribed from caption: HEALING MINISTRY OF MUSIC #s-3194 NEW YORK -- War-stricken GIs, some of whom will spend the rest of their lives in Veterans Administration hospitals, have been brought the healing ministry of music by the Service Men’s Council of the Protestant Council of New York. The Council, through its Hospital Music Guild, provides music in local VA, Army and Navy hospitals. And scenes like that above, with YMCA leader Norman Lloyd at the piano, are the result. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (SMC-NY-MES-4B-6-W)
Creator:
Protestant Council of the City of New York. (publisher)
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., Protestant Council of the City of New York., Lloyd, Norman.
Topics:
World War, 1939-1945--Casualties--New York (State)--New York., World War, 1939-1945--Veterans--New York (State)--New York., Music therapy--New York (State)--New York., Church work with the sick--New York (State)--New York.
Geographic subjects:
New York (N.Y.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:359119
Title:
Confer with Truman on vet housing.
Description:
Text transcribed from caption: CONFER WITH TRUMAN ON VET HOUSING #S-1798 WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Religious leaders representing eight church organizations confer with President Truman on plans to solve the housing shortage among returning servicemen. Left to right are: the Rev. Paul T. Tanner, National Catholic Welfare Conference; Rabbi Gustave Falk, director of the New York Federation of Reformed Synagogues; Dr. Earl Adams, executive director of the Protestant Council of New York; Rabbi Herbert S. Goldstein, president of the Synagogue Council of America; President Truman; Dr. Norman V. Peale, pastor of the Marble Collegiate Church, New York; Dr. Robert W. Searle, general secretary of the Greater New York Federation of Churches; Gordon Chamberlain of the Commission on the Church’s Ministry to Returning Servicemen and Women of the Federal Council of Churches; Bishop W. R. Arnold, representing the Roman Catholic archdiocese of New York; and the Rev. Frederick B. Harris, chaplain of the U.S. Senate. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (RN-WA-MES-2C-6-W)
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., Truman, Harry S., 1884-1972., Oval Office (White House, Washington, D.C.), Tanner, Paul T., Catholic Church--Clergy., National Catholic Welfare Conference., Falk, Gustave., Federation of Reform Synagogues (New York, N.Y.), Protestant Council of the City of New York., Adams, Earl., Goldstein, Herbert S. (Herbert Samuel), 1890-1970., Synagogue Council of America., Peale, Norman Vincent, 1898-1993., Greater New York Federation of Churches., Searle, Robert W. (Robert Wyckoff), 1894-1967., Chamberlain, Gordon., Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America. Commission on the Church's Ministry to Returning Servicemen and Women., Arnold, William Richard., Catholic Church--Bishops., Harris, Frederick Brown, 1883-1970., United States. Congress. Senate--Chaplains.
Topics:
Presidents--United States., Clergy--Washington (D.C.), Bishops--Washington (D.C.), Rabbis--Washington (D.C.), World War, 1939-1945--Veterans--United States., Veterans--Housing.
Geographic subjects:
Washington (D.C.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:358635
Title:
First New York conference on religion and race.
Description:
Text transcribed from caption: PC-30652 FIRST NEW YORK CONFERENCE ON RELIGION AND RACE NEW YORK -- More than 2,000 Protestant, Roman Catholic and Jewish clergy and laymen took part in the first Metropolitan New York Conference on Religion and Race, an all-day session which ended with an interreligious call for an end to prejudice in areas of civil rights, education, housing, employment, health and welfare and the inner life of church and synagogue. Honorary chairmen of the Conference included, from left to right: Dr. Arthur Lee Kinsolving, Episcopal clergyman and president of the Protestant Council of the City of New York; Francis Cardinal Spellman, Archbishop of New York, and Rabbi Max Schenk, president of the New York Board of Rabbis. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (BB-NY-2E-64-NBM)
Creator:
Unger, Henry F. (photographer)
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., Hotel Americana (New York, N.Y.), Metropolitan New York Conference on Religion and Race (1964 : New York, N.Y.), Kinsolving, Arthur Lee., Protestant Council of the City of New York., Episcopal Church--Clergy., Spellman, Francis, 1889-1967., Catholic Church. Archdiocese of New York (N.Y.), Catholic Church--Bishops., Schenk, Max., New York Board of Rabbis.
Topics:
Conferences and conventions--New York (State)--New York., Interdenominational cooperation., Church and social problems--United States., Civil rights--Religious aspects--Christianity.
Geographic subjects:
New York (N.Y.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:353857
Title:
New York churchman tours Holy Land.
Description:
Text transcribed from caption: P-30611 NEW YORK CHURCHMAN TOURS HOLY LAND JERUSALEM -- Greetings from New York Protestants were carried to the Middle East and Western Europe by Dr. Dan M. Potter, director of the Protestant Council of the City of New York, and Mrs. Potter. Their tour included meetings with Ecumenical Patriarch Athenagoras, supreme leader of Eastern Orthodoxy, at Istanbul, and an audience with Pope Paul VI at the Vatican. In the Holy Land, Dr. And Mrs. Potter delivered specially inscribed greetings to Greek Orthodox Patriarch Benedictos of Jerusalem, President S.Z. Shazar of Israel (top center) and King Hussein of Jordan (bottom center). Their tour of shrines included a visit to the Benedictine Abbey of the Dormition (right) on Mt. Zion, near the traditional site of the room of the Last Supper. Dr. Potter also planted a sapling (left) at a special center in Sanhedria, site of the mass tombs of the Sanhedrin, the Rabbinical Courts of ancient Israel. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (PC-NY-2D-64-NBM)
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., Protestant Council of the City of New York., Potter, Dan M., Hagia Maria Sion Abbey (Jerusalem)
Topics:
Pilgrims and pilgrimages--Jerusalem., Interdenominational cooperation.
Geographic subjects:
Zion, Mount (Jerusalem)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:353808
Title:
New York churchman tours Holy Land.
Description:
Text transcribed from caption: P-30611 NEW YORK CHURCHMAN TOURS HOLY LAND JERUSALEM -- Greetings from New York Protestants were carried to the Middle East and Western Europe by Dr. Dan M. Potter, director of the Protestant Council of the City of New York, and Mrs. Potter. Their tour included meetings with Ecumenical Patriarch Athenagoras, supreme leader of Eastern Orthodoxy, at Istanbul, and an audience with Pope Paul VI at the Vatican. In the Holy Land, Dr. And Mrs. Potter delivered specially inscribed greetings to Greek Orthodox Patriarch Benedictos of Jerusalem, President S.Z. Shazar of Israel (top center) and King Hussein of Jordan (bottom center). Their tour of shrines included a visit to the Benedictine Abbey of the Dormition (right) on Mt. Zion, near the traditional site of the room of the Last Supper. Dr. Potter also planted a sapling (left) at a special center in Sanhedria, site of the mass tombs of the Sanhedrin, the Rabbinical Courts of ancient Israel. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (PC-NY-2D-64-NBM)
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., Protestant Council of the City of New York., Potter, Dan M., Shazar, Zalman, 1889-1974., Hussein, King of Jordan, 1935-1999.
Topics:
Pilgrims and pilgrimages--Jerusalem., Interdenominational cooperation.
Geographic subjects:
Jerusalem.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:353807

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