Text transcribed from caption: P-31526 LUTHERAN WORLD MISSION LEADERS MEET UPPSALA, Sweden -- Christianity's confrontation with Islam and Judaism headed discussion topics as members of the Lutheran World Federation's Commission on World Mission and some 150 church officials and mission representatives met at Uppsala, Sweden. TOP PHOTO: Among visitors at the commission meeting was Dr. W.F. Bulle (center), executive secretary of the Medical Mission Council of the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod in the U.S. He discusses missions problems with Bishop Rajah B. Manimak of Tranquebar (left), Tamil Evangelical Lutheran Church in India, and Dr. Arne Sovik, director of the LWF's Department of World Mission. BOTTOM PHOTO: Bishop Heinrich Meyer of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Luebeck, Germany (seated), presided at the sessions. The five other members of the commission, shown with Bishop Meyer, are (left to right) -- the Rev. Daniel Magogo, secretary of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Tanganyika; Dr. Marsallan Bage, president of the Gossner Evangelical Lutheran Church in India; Bishop Helge Fosseus of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Southern Africa -- South Eastern Region; Dr. Samuel E. Kidd, president of the Eastern Pennsylvania Synod of the Lutheran Church in America; and the Rev. Karimuda Sitopmpul, associate general secretary of the National Council of Churches in Indonesia. Dr. Kidd was elected vice-chairman of the commission [commission] and Dr. Bage was named secretary. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (LW-BD-8E-64-NBM)
