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History of interdenominational and interfaith cooperation, including the work conducted by the following organizations: Religious News Service, National Council of the Churches of Christ, American and Foreign Christian Union, American Sunday School Union, Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America, and Home Missions Council of North America. Featured image: Delegates of the World's First Religious Parliament, Art Palace, Chicago, Illinois, September 21, 1893.

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Title:
Celebrating of death for the NCC.
Description:
Malcolm Boyd leads "Jonathan's Wake" in support of "New Life" for the churches and celebration of death for the NCC 10-22 #18.
Creator:
John Fulton Photo/Art. (photographer)
Subject names:
National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America.
Topics:
Demonstrations.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:4958
Title:
Sign and charred cross.
Description:
Remains of an 8 foot Cross.
Subject names:
Delta Ministry of Mississippi., National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America.
Topics:
Crosses.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:4954
Title:
Dedication of the United Nations Center, 1963.
Description:
Sept 22, 1963 -- At the dedication of the United Nations Center are right to left: Bishop F. Gerald Ensley, J. Irwin Miller, President NCC, U.S. Secretary of State Dean Rusk, Adlai E. Stevenson, and U. Thant- Secretary General UN.
Subject names:
National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America., United Nations., Ensley, Francis Gerald, 1907-1976., Miller, J. Irwin (Joseph Irwin), 1909-2004., Rusk, Dean, 1909-1994., Stevenson, Adlai E. (Adlai Ewing), 1900-1965., Thant, U., 1909-1974.
Geographic subjects:
New York (N.Y.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:4952
Title:
James Forman burns court order.
Creator:
Religious News Service. (creator)
Subject names:
National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America., Forman, James, 1928-2005.
Topics:
African American civil rights workers.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:4951
Title:
Bishop Reuben H. Mueller aboard the USS Krishna.
Description:
NCC President in War Zone: Bishop Reuben H. Mueller, president of the National Council of Churches, conducts services for officers and men of the USS Krishna, Naval supply ship off the coast of South Vietnam. Bishop Mueller of Indianapolis, head of the Evangelical United Brethren Church, spent a week in the South Vietnam war zone during the Easter season. He was accompanied on the annual visit to servicemen overseas -- for the first time this year to a war area-- by Dr. Fred S. Buschmeyer of New York, secretary of the United Church of Christ, and Dr. J. Oscar Lee, secretary for program of the NCC's Division of Christian Life and Mission.
Creator:
Religious News Service. (creator)
Subject names:
National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America., Mueller, Reuben H., Mueller, Reuben Herbert, 1897-1982., Evangelical United Brethren Church., Buschmeyer, Fred S., Lee, J. Oscar., United Church of Christ.
Topics:
Vietnam War, 1961-1975--War work--Churches.
Geographic subjects:
Vietnam.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:4950
Title:
NCC General Assembly in Detroit, Michigan, 1969.
Description:
Group at panel table. GA Detroit Nov 30-Dec 4 1969.
Subject names:
National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America.
Geographic subjects:
Detroit (Mich.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:4949
Title:
President Eisenhower lays Interchurch Center cornerstone.
Creator:
Religious News Service. (creator)
Subject names:
National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America., Eisenhower, Dwight D. (Dwight David), 1890-1969., Interchurch Center (New York, N.Y.)
Topics:
Presidents--United States., Cornerstone laying--New York (State)--New York.
Geographic subjects:
New York (N.Y.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:4947
Title:
Before the Balloting.
Creator:
Religious News Service. (creator)
Subject names:
National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:4946
Title:
Man at podium at NCC Assembly.
Description:
Former description: Indian Spokesman Confronts NCC.
Creator:
Religious News Service. (creator)
Subject names:
National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:4945
Title:
National Council of Churches seal.
Subject names:
National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:4943
Title:
Members of the American delegation to the International Conference of Church Leaders on the Problems of World Order.
Description:
Members of the American delegation to the International Conference of Church Leaders on the Problems of World Order, Cambridge, England, leave LaGuardia Field, New York City on July 29 for the meeting.
Subject names:
Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America., Conference of Church Leaders on International Affairs (1946 : Cambridge, England), National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America., La Guardia Airport.
Geographic subjects:
New York (N.Y.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:4942
Title:
Dedication of the John Foster Dulles Library and Research Center in New York City.
Description:
Dedication on May 22, 1962 in NYC of the John Foster Dulles Library and Research Center. Left to right: Dr. Roswell P. Barnes, Dr. O. Frederick Nolde; Dean Rusk; Allen Dulles; Dr. Kenneth Maxwell; Dr. Henry Pitney Van Dusen; Bishop G. Bromley Oxnam; and Henry Luce.
Subject names:
National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America., Nolde, O. Frederick (Otto Frederick), 1899-1972., Rusk, Dean, 1909-1994., Van Dusen, Henry P. (Henry Pitney), 1897-1975., Oxnam, G. Bromley (Garfield Bromley), 1891-1963., Luce, Henry Robinson, 1898-1967., Barnes, Roswell P. (Roswell Parkhurst), 1901-1990., Dulles, Allen, 1893-1969., Maxwell, Kenneth E., 1908-, Dulles, John Foster, 1888-1959.
Topics:
Libraries--New York (State)--New York.
Geographic subjects:
New York (N.Y.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:4941
Title:
Group portrait at General Assembly.
Description:
General Assembly, Miami Beach, Florida, December 4-9, 1966.
Subject names:
National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America.
Geographic subjects:
Miami Beach (Fla.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:4940
Title:
Group at dinner table.
Description:
Text transcribed from caption: The interior of our room at the Duc Tri high school. The American is Doug Hostetter, with whom I worked, and the boy next to him is Buu, a high school student with whom I shared another room.
Subject names:
National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America., Hostetter, C. Douglas, 1944-
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:4939
Title:
Dr. Norman Vincent Peale, Bishop Reuben H. Mueller, Billy Graham, and Dr. Arthur S. Flemming.
Description:
Seen at Laity Luncheon held in conjunction with the Assembly are (left to right) Dr. Norman Vincent Peale, Bishop Reuben H. Mueller, Evangelist Billy Graham, and Dr. Arthur S. Flemming.
Subject names:
National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Department of Communication., Peale, Norman Vincent, 1898-1993., Graham, Billy, 1918-2018., Mueller, Reuben Herbert, 1897-1982., Flemming, Arthur S. (Arthur Sherwood), 1905-1996.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:4938
Title:
Dr. Martin Niemoeller, Bishop Reuben H. Mueller, and Dr. R.H. Edwin Espy.
Description:
Last Hope for Racial Rapprochement -- 'Christianity': Christianity holds the last hope "for peaceful rapprochement between white and non-white peoples of the globe," the famed German Protestant churchman, Dr. Martin Niemoeller (center), declared in an address before the policy-making General Board of the National Council of Churches at Portland, Ore. Greeting Dr. Niemoeller is Bishop Reuben H. Mueller of the Evangelical United Brethren Church, president of the NCC, and at left is Dr. R.H. Edwin Espy, NCC general secretary.
Creator:
Religious News Service. (creator)
Subject names:
National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America., Espy, R. H. Edwin, 1908-, Niemöller, Martin, 1892-1984., Mueller, Reuben Herbert, 1897-1982.
Topics:
Race relations--Religious aspects--Christianity.
Geographic subjects:
Portland (Or.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:4936
Title:
"Christian Manifesto" protests.
Description:
Christian Manifesto': Fundamentalist minister Dr. Carl McIntire, right, reads part of his "Christian Manifesto" -- seeking $3 billion in reparations from "modernist" churches -- on the steps of New York's Riverside church. Dr. McIntire, 63, head of the International Council of Christian Churches, said his "Christian Manifesto" was an answer to the "Black Manifesto" delivered by black militant James Forman earlier this year.
Creator:
Religious News Service. (creator)
Subject names:
National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America., McIntire, Carl, 1906-2002., Riverside Church (New York, N.Y.), Black Economic Development Conference. Black manifesto., Forman, James, 1928-2005.
Topics:
Demonstrations--New York (State)--New York., Race relations--Religious Aspects--Christianity.
Geographic subjects:
New York (N.Y.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:4934
Title:
World's First Religious Parliament.
Description:
Delegates of the World's First Religious Parliament, Art Palace, Chicago, Illinois, September 21, 1893.
Subject names:
World's Parliament of Religions (1893 : Chicago, Ill.)
Topics:
Religious gatherings--Illinois--Chicago.
Geographic subjects:
Chicago (Ill.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:4931
Title:
We mean to stay:
Description:
Documents the agency of the National Council of Churches offering economic and social welfare assistance to the underprivileged in the delta area of Mississippi.
Creator:
Roos, Barbara. (contributor), Thompson, Ken. (contributor)
Subject names:
Delta Ministry., National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America.
Topics:
Missions--Mississippi., African Americans--Missions.
Geographic subjects:
Delta (Miss. : Region)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:4288
Title:
Group at convention.
Description:
National Council Debates Middle East: Dr. Robert S. Bilheimer, executive director of the National Council of Churches' department of international affairs, answers questions on an NCC "Policy on the Middle East" adopted at the Spring session of the General Board in New York. The policy states that the Christians' concern over the troubled Middle East must concentrate on the element of human need without being pro-Arab or pro-Israeli.
Creator:
Religious News Service. (creator)
Subject names:
National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:4277

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