Ecumenical and interfaith activities

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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:
National Council of Churches convention.
Description:
NCC Founding -- Banners announce the names of founding churches as delegates meet for the constituting convention of the National Council of Churches in Cleveland, Ohio, Nov. 28-Dec. 1, 1950. The NCC has become increasingly close to the Catholic Church during its 25 year history.
Creator:
National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. (creator)
Subject names:
National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America.
Topics:
Congresses and conventions--Ohio--Cleveland.
Geographic subjects:
Cleveland (Ohio)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:5043
Title:
Delta Ministry cross.
Description:
"In gratitude for financial help to the Delta Ministry."
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:5033
Title:
Group with banner.
Description:
Jonathan's Wake/Win with Love 3-13.
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:5026
Title:
Sterling Cary, Claire Randall and an unidentified man.
Subject names:
National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America., Randall, Claire., Cary, Sterling.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:5023
Title:
Federal Council of the Churches staff retreat.
Description:
Elective staff of the FCC at retreat at the home of Henry Smith Leiper, Leonia, N.J.
Creator:
Baur Studio. (photographer)
Subject names:
Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America., Leiper, Henry Smith, 1891-1975., National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America.
Topics:
Management retreats--New Jersey--Leonia.
Geographic subjects:
Leonia (N.J.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:5017
Title:
NCC draft lottery.
Description:
"NCC Draft Lottery" 29-39 GA-Detroit MI Nov. 30-Dec. 4 1969.
Creator:
John Fulton Photo/Art. (photographer)
Subject names:
National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America.
Topics:
Draft., Vietnam War, 1961-1975.
Geographic subjects:
Detroit (Mich.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:4980
Title:
Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey.
Description:
Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey addresses a General Public Session of the Assembly.
Creator:
Fontainebleau Photography Inc. (photographer)
Subject names:
National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America., Humphrey, Hubert H. (Hubert Horatio), 1911-1978.
Topics:
Vice Presidents--United States.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:4961
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:
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:
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. 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

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