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:
John Wesley.
Creator:
Hymn Society of America. (publisher)
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., Wesley, John, 1703-1791., Church of England--Clergy.
Topics:
Evangelists--England.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:349030
Title:
Isaac Watts.
Creator:
Hymn Society of America. (publisher)
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., Watts, Isaac, 1674-1748.
Topics:
Congregational churches--Clergy., Composers--England., Hymn writers--England.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:349029
Title:
Calvin Laufer.
Creator:
Hymn Society of America. (publisher)
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., Laufer, Calvin Weiss, 1874-1938., United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A.--Clergy.
Topics:
Composers--United States., Hymn writers--United States.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:349028
Title:
Reginald Heber.
Creator:
Hymn Society of America. (publisher)
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., Heber, Reginald, 1783-1826., Church of England--Bishops.
Topics:
Composers--England., Hymn writers--England.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:349027
Title:
John Bacchus Dykes.
Creator:
Hymn Society of America. (publisher)
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., Dykes, John Bacchus, 1823-1876.
Topics:
Composers--England., Hymn writers--England.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:349026
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Woman ordained in AME church.
Description:
Text transcribed from caption: PN-31024 WOMAN ORDAINED IN AME CHURCH NEW YORK -- Mrs. Lillian Webb, a secretary in the National Council of Churches’ Department of Stewardship and Benevolence, is the first woman to be ordained as an itinerant minister in the New York Annual Conference of the African Methodist Episcopal Church. She is congratulated here by the Rev. Malcolm Blackburn, associate executive director of the department, which she will continue to serve. Mr. Blackburn delivered the ordinate sermon at the Macedonia AME church in Flushing, N.Y. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (1-NY-5D-64-NBM)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:348822
Title:
Demonstrators pray before dispersing.
Description:
Text transcribed from caption: PC-31023 DEMONSTRATORS PRAY BEFORE DISPERSING CAMBRIDGE, Md. -- A Roman Catholic priest leads demonstrators in prayer at Cambridge, Md., as they prepare to disperse. The group, which included Protestant and Catholic clergymen, had gathered at the courthouse to protest the arrest of a demonstration leader, Mrs. Gloria Richardson, a Negro. Leading the prayers is Father Louis Jaramillo of the Catholic University of America. To his right is Brig. Gen. G. M. Gelston, commander of the Maryland National Guard forces, who ordered the group to leave the area. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (W-NY-5C-64-W)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:348821
Title:
Ousted Greek Orthodox prelates reach U.S.
Description:
Text transcribed from caption: PC-31000 OUSTED GREEK ORTHODOX PRELATES REACH U.S. NEW YORK -- Two high-ranking Greek Orthodox metropolitans, ousted from Turkey for alleged “actions harmful to the state,” arrived in New York after visits to London, Paris and Geneva. At a press conference in New York at the headquarters of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of North and South America, Metropolitan Iakovos of Philadelphia (left) and Metropolitan Emilianos of Selefkias denied any actions against Turkey. Their forced departure was described as a political pressure move against the Ecumenical Patriarchate in Istanbul, which has been under increased harassment during the Greek-Turkish conflict on Cyprus. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (U-NY-5C-64-NBM)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:348820
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Protestant-sponsored 'demonstration Catholic Mass.'
Description:
Text transcribed from caption: PC-30996 PROTESTANT-SPONSORED ‘DEMONSTRATION CATHOLIC MASS’ CHICAGO -- An ecumenical first in the U.S. -- a Demonstration (Roman Catholic) English Mass -- will be held May 25 at the Rockefeller Memorial Chapel at the University of Chicago. Twenty Protestant groups -- five seminaries and 14 churches -- are co-sponsors of the program along with the Catholic Adult Education Center of Chicago and local Catholic parishes. Denominations to be represented include Baptist, Unitarian, United Church of Christ, Disciples of Christ, Presbyterian, Methodist, Luther and Protestant Episcopal groups. The experimental mass in English to be demonstrated is the work of a young Chicago composer, Dennis Fitzpatrick, shown below. According to the Catholic Adult Education Center, “because his work incorporates actual and contemplate changes by Vatican Council II, it will afford a new experience for Roman Catholic and Protestant alike.” Dr. Howard C. Schomer, president of Chicago Theological Seminary (United Church of Christ), said “many traditional Protestant misunderstandings of the intent of Roman Catholic worship may be dissolved in surprise and joy at this ecumenical event at Rockefeller Chapel.” Mr. Roger Nachtwey, a singer, will portray the role of the “priest” in the demonstration mass. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (FEL-CHI-5B-64-W)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:348819
Title:
President urges religious civil rights support.
Description:
Text transcribed from caption: PC-30963 PRESIDENT URGES RELIGIOUS CIVIL RIGHTS SUPPORT WASHINGTON, D.C. -- America’s religious community was challenged by President Johnson to “reawaken the conscience” of the nation and make the civil rights bill -- which he predicted would pass -- an effective force in the struggle for equal justice. A total of 177 Protestant, Catholic and Jewish clergy and laymen heard the President in the East Room of the White House on the day following a mass interreligious convocation at Georgetown University to demand passage of the civil rights bill. Seated under painting to the President’s right, from right to left, are top Protestant, Catholic and Jewish spokesmen: Rabbi Uri Miller, president of the Synagogue Council of America; Bishop B. Julian Smith of the Christian Methodist Episcopal Church and a vice chairman of the National Council of Churches’ race commission; Dr. Eugene Carson Blake, NCC race commission chairman and chief administrative officer of the United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A.; Archbishop Patrick A. O’Boyle of Washington, and Rabbi Lewis A. Weintraub, president of the Washington Board of Rabbis. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (W-DC-5A-64-NBM)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:348818
Title:
Civil rights prayer vigil.
Description:
Text transcribed from caption: PC-30952 CIVIL RIGHTS PRAYER VIGIL WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Protestant, Roman Catholic and Jewish theology students stand at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C., where, they said, they planned to continue a silent prayer vigil for civil rights until the pending legislation is made law. From left to right are Steve Geckeler of Union Theological Seminary, New York; Bob Ekhaml of Paulist Fathers Seminary in Washington, H. Richard Lewis of the Jewish Institute of Religion, New York; Evelyn Bain of New York’s Union Seminary, and Sheldon Lewis of Jewish Theological Seminary, New York. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (W-NY-4E-64-NBM)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:348817
Title:
Leaders at interreligious civil rights rally.
Description:
Text transcribed from caption: PC-30951 LEADERS AT INTERRELIGIOUS CIVIL RIGHTS RALLY WASHINGTON, D. C. -- These were the leaders of the Interreligious Convocation on Civil Rights attended by some 5,000 clergy and lay people at Georgetown University in Washington, held in support of the civil rights bill in Congress. Sponsors of the convocation were the National Council of Churches, National Catholic Welfare Conference and Synagogue Council of America. Left to right are: Catholic Archbishop Patrick A. O’Boyle of Washington, who presided; Rabbi Uri Miller, president of the Synagogue Council; Dr. Eugene Carson Blake, chairman of the NCC’s Commission on Religion and Race and chief executive officer of the United Presbyterian Church in the U. S. A.; Catholic Archbishop Lawrence J. Shehan of Baltimore; and Bishop B. Julian Smith of the Christian Methodist Episcopal Church, vice-chairman of the NCC commission. The overflow crowd jammed both the Catholic university’s gymnasium and nearby auditorium. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (W-4D-64-NAB)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:348816
Title:
Long petition for school prayer.
Description:
Text transcribed from caption: PC-30944 LONG PETITION FOR SCHOOL PRAYER WASHINGTON, D.C. -- A 200-foot petition containing 16,000 signatures in support of the move to amend the U.S. Constitution and return prayer and Bible reading to public schools is unrolled on the Capitol steps by Rep. Louis C. Wyman (R.-N.H.), a sponsor of one of the many “prayer amendment” resolutions before the House Judiciary Committee. G. W. Schafrer, chairman of the Cincinnati, O., “Committee to Protect the Right of Prayer,” which obtained the signatures, looks on as a group of touring high school students holds the elongated petition. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (SM-DC-4E-64-NBM)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:348815
Title:
Coffee break at World Council sessions.
Description:
Text transcribed from caption: PC-30943 COFFEE BREAK AT WORLD COUNCIL SESSIONS BUCK HILL FALLS, Pa. -- Two delegates from this country at the annual meeting of the U. S. Conference for The World Council of Churches in Buck Hill Falls chat with a Nigerian during an out-door coffee break between sessions. Left to right are: Dr. Stuart L. Anderson, president of the Pacific School of Religion, Berkeley, Calif., (United Church of Christ); Matthew C. Uthesbulam, an ecumenical scholar-ship student in America from Nigeria; and Ivan M. Czap of Philadelphia, representing the Russian Orthodox Greek Catholic Church of America. The U. S. Conference comprises 30 U. S. member bodies of the WCC. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (WC-4D-64-NAB)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:348814
Title:
Civil rights demonstrators march at fair.
Description:
Text transcribed from caption: PC-30917 CIVIL RIGHTS DEMONSTRATORS MARCH AT FAIR NEW YORK -- Opening day of the New York World’s Fair featured both organized pomp and ceremony and demands for civil rights by members of the Congress of Racial Equality. Most fairgoers gave picket lines brief attention, though demonstrations at some pavilions drew crowds as police broke up disturbances and made arrests. Here, members of the Boston, Mass., chapter of CORE march in the shadow of the Unisphere, the fair’s symbol. None of the eight religious pavilions at the exposition was picketed and few, if any, clergymen were involved in the demonstrations. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (RNS-NY-4D-64-NBM)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:348813
Title:
Catholic, Episcopal clergy leaders meet.
Description:
Text transcribed from caption: PC-30895 CATHOLIC, EPISCOPAL CLERGY LEADERS MEET KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- These three bishops were leaders of this area’s first Protestant Episcopal--Roman Catholic ecumenical conference attended by about 125 representatives from both Churches. Left to right are Episcopal Bishop Edward R. Welles of West Missouri, Catholic bishop Charles Helmsing of Kansas City-St. Joseph, and Episcopal Bishop Edward C. Turner of Kansas. They are shown in the library of Grace and Holy Trinity Episcopal Cathedral in Kansas City. Sessions were held in the Cathedral’s Haden Hall. General topic of the meeting was “Measuring our hopes for unity.” A joint statement said the “theological discussions were marked by the peace and warmth of true Christian involvement.” Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (JR-KC-4D-64-NAB)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:348812
Title:
Sudan Madonna at New York World's Fair.
Description:
Text transcribed from caption: PC-30894 SUDAN MADONNA AT NEW YORK WORLD’S FAIR NEW YORK -- One of the oldest Madonna and Child painting ever discovered will be on display in the Pavilion of The Sudan at the New York World’s Fair. Found by archaeologists in northern Sudan last year, the painting on sandbrick adorned the wall of an ancient church. Because the delicate fresco, estimated to be from 1,000 to 1,200 years old, has been covered by sand for centuries, its colors have been vividly preserved. The discovery came during efforts to save as many artifacts as possible from an area soon to be flooded by backwaters of the Aswan Dam, being built down the Nile by the United Arab Republic. The Madonna is six feet square and weighs 1,000 pounds. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (WF-NY-4D-64-NBM)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:348811
Title:
Brotherhood citations in Kansas City.
Description:
Text transcribed from caption: PC-30888 BROTHERHOOD CITATIONS IN KANSAS CITY KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- These five leading citizens received brotherhood citations for outstanding contributions to human understanding from the Kansas City, Mo., region of the National Conference of Christians and Jews. Seated, left to right, are: Dean Frederick D. Lewis, Jr., of the University of Missouri’s School of Law; Mrs. Earl D. Thomas, active in the race relations program of United Church Women; Kenneth Krakauer, president of the Kansas City Chamber of Commerce. Standing are Clair H. Schroeder, left, vice-president of City National Bank and Trust Co. and chairman of the city’s Council of Churches; and Robert G. Hoyt, editor of the Catholic Reporter, official weekly of the Kansas City diocese, and first president of the Catholic Interracial Council of Kansas City. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (JB-KC-4C-64-NAB)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:348810
Title:
Justice Goldberg addresses RIAL banquet.
Description:
Text transcribed from caption: PC-30887 JUSTICE GOLDBERG ADDRESSES RIAL BANQUET NEW YORK -- Churches and synagogues of America were urged by Justice Arthur J. Goldberg of the U.S. Supreme Court to greater involvement in the “moral and ethical issues of our times.” He addressed the 15th anniversary dinner of Religion in American Life in New York. Shown at the speaker’s table (top photo, left to right) are Edward L. Steiniger, president of Sinclair Oil Corporation and chairman of the dinner committee; Dr. Malvin H. Lundeen (top table), secretary of the Lutheran Church in America; Jackie Robinson, former baseball star and United Church Men president who gave the invocation; Theodore Replier [Repplier], president of The Advertising Council, which promotes the RIAL worship program; and Dr. Ralph Stoody, public information director of The Methodist Church. Members of the nation’s major religious groups attended the event, including (bottom, left to right) Roman Catholic Auxiliary Bishop Joseph M. Pernicone of New York; Rabbi Philip Hiat, executive vice president of the Synagogue Council of America; Dr. Marion deVelder, RIAL chairman and chief executive officer of the Reformed Church in America; Senior Bishop William J. Wall of the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church, Chicago, and the Very Rev. George J. Bacopulos, chancellor of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of North and South America. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (R-NY-4C-64-NBM)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:348809
Title:
Shakespeare and his church.
Description:
Text transcribed from caption: PC-30886 SHAKESPEARE AND HIS CHURCH Shakespeare’s church. Holy Trinity church at Stratford-on-Avon is where William Shakespeare was baptized and where he is buried. The 400th anniversary of his birth on April 23 was marked throughout the world. Many churchmen and church publications cited religious aspects of his work. In England, the British post office broke with tradition and placed his picture alongside Queen Elizabeth’s on a series of commemorative stamps. Previously, illustrations on postage were restricted to royalty. The influence of Shakespeare was perhaps epitomized in an NBC-TV “special” (April 26) in which films of the places associated with his life and plays were featured. It was called “Shakespeare: Soul of an Age.” Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (IN-NY-4C-64-W)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:348808

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