Text transcribed from caption: C-32213 POPE BAPTIZES CONGOLESE CONVERTS ROME -- Pope Paul VI baptizes a group of 12 Congolese converts, who later received their first Holy Communion and were Confirmed at the Basilica of St. Paul-Outside-the-Walls in Rome. The rites were held in connection with a memorial Mass for 130 Catholic missionaries killed in the Congo since that country’s independence in 1960. In a sermon the Pope condemned the “brutal violation” of basic human rights in recent violence in African nations. Christians have a duty, he said, to “stigmatize such crimes and bring them before the conscience of the world.” Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (W-3A-65-NAB)

Keystone (Rome, Italy) (publisher)

1965
February 26, 1965

still image

photographs

photograph : black-and-white ; 6 1/2 x 9 1/2 inches

Religious News Service--Archives.
Paul VI, Pope, 1897-1978.
San Paolo fuori le mura (Church : Rome, Italy)

Popes.
Baptism--Catholic Church.
Baptism--Italy--Rome.
Sacraments--Catholic Church.
Catholic converts--Congo (Democratic Republic)
Massacres--Congo (Democratic Republic)
National liberation movements--Congo (Democratic Republic)

Italy
Rome.
Congo (Democratic Republic)
Rome (Italy)
Europe--Italy--Lazio--Roma--Rome

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Religious News Service Photographs, 1945-1982.

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RNS RG 1, image no. C-32213; Presbyterian Historical Society, Philadelphia, PA

RNS-RG1_C-32213

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