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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:
Korea Committee minutes, 1956-1957.
Description:
Includes minutes and reports of the committee.
Creator:
National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Division of Overseas Ministries. Asia Department. (creator)
Subject names:
National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Division of Overseas Ministries--Archives.
Topics:
Missions--Interdenominational cooperation., Missions--Korea (South)
Geographic subjects:
Korea (South)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:352325
Title:
Churchman gets ready for cold.
Creator:
Wide World Photos, Inc. (publisher)
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., Blake, Eugene Carson, 1906-1985., Foch, Martin C., National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America., Elmendorf Air Force Base (Alaska)
Topics:
Christmas., Interdenominational cooperation., Military chaplains--Alaska--Anchorage.
Geographic subjects:
Anchorage (Alaska)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:288247
Title:
Dr. Blake in Alaska.
Description:
Text transcribed from caption: P-20060. DR. BLAKE IN ALASKA. ANCHORAGE, ALASKA -- Dr. Eugene Carson Blake of Philadelphia, President of the National Council of Churches, is fitted with arctic gear at Elmendorf Air Force Base here during his Christmas visit to American servicemen and chaplains of the Alaskan command. Assisting him is Chaplain (Col.) Martin C. Foch of the Alaskan Command. Dr. Blake made the journey as spiritual ambassador of the National Council's 30 Protestant and Eastern Orthodox Communions and their 144,000 local churches. The visit marks the third consecutive year that he has spent the Christmas holidays with the men in the armed forces. CREDIT MUST READ: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (W-12C-56-NAB-P)
Creator:
Wide World Photos, Inc. (publisher)
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., Blake, Eugene Carson, 1906-1985., Foch, Martin C., National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America., Elmendorf Air Force Base (Alaska)
Topics:
Christmas., Interdenominational cooperation., Military chaplains--Alaska--Anchorage.
Geographic subjects:
Anchorage (Alaska)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:288246
Title:
Mid-East Profile.
Description:
A report from the Commissions on Missionary Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the U.S.A., about 1956. Explores the powerful and conflicting forces at work in the Middle East and surveys the opportunities open to Christian missions to help form a revitalized society. Filmed in the Middle East.
Creator:
National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. (creator)
Subject names:
Malik, Charles Habib, 1906-1987.
Topics:
Missions--Middle East.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:141949
Title:
American Apostle, 1956.
Description:
Side 2. American apostle, a dramatization of the life of Francis Makemie, program 240, for broadcast the week of May 21, 1956, produced by the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the U.S.A. Broadcasting and Film Commission. Episode of the radio series, Let there be light.
Subject names:
Makemie, Francis, 1658-1708., Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Department of Radio and Television., National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Broadcasting and Film Commission.
Geographic subjects:
United States--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:73049
Title:
American churchmen visit Moscow gallery.
Description:
Moscow--American church leaders visit the Tretiakov Gallery here during their ten-day stay in the Soviet Union. Shown in front row are, left to right: Dr. Roswell P. Barnes of New York, associate general secretary of the National Council of Churches; Charles C. Parlin of Englewood, N.J., a member of the National Council's general board; the Rt. Rev. Henry Knox Sherrill of New York, presiding bishop of the Episcopal Church; Dr. Eugene Carson Blake of Philadelphia, president of the National Council; Bishop D. Ward Nichols of New York, head of the African Methodist Episcopal Church's First Episcopal District; Paul B. Anderson of New York, secretary of the YMCA International Committee; and Dr. Franklin Clark Fry of New York, president of the United Lutheran Church in America.
Creator:
Sovfoto/Eastfoto, Inc. (photographer)
Subject names:
Sherrill, Henry Knox, 1890-1980., Blake, Eugene Carson, 1906-1985., Nichols, D. Ward (Decatur Ward), 1900-, Anderson, Paul B., 1894-1985., Fry, Franklin Clark, 1900-1968., Religious News Service--Archives.
Topics:
Ecumenical movement--Soviet Union.
Geographic subjects:
Soviet Union.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:11060
Title:
Alexei gets American church gift.
Description:
Moscow--Patriarch Alexei, head of the Russian Orthodoc Church (right), was presented with this large silver chalice by a group of nine American Protestant leaders who were on a 10-day visit to Moscow. Shown translating the inscription on the cup is Paul B. Anderson of New York, a member of the visiting delegation, who speaks Russian. The trip was sponsored by the National Council of Churches at the invitation of Patriarch Alexei. Heading the delegation was Dr. Eugene Carson Blake of Philadelphia, president of the National Council.
Creator:
Sovfoto/Eastfoto, Inc. (photographer)
Subject names:
Anderson, Paul B., 1894-1985., Religious News Service--Archives.
Topics:
Ecumenical movement--Soviet Union.
Geographic subjects:
Soviet Union.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:11059
Title:
American churchmen sight-seeing in Moscow.
Description:
Moscow--Seven of nine American Protestant leaders on a ten-day visit to Moscow go sight-seeing in Red Square accompanied by a Russian Orthodox churchman and two interpreters. Left to right are: Charles C. Parlin of Englewood, N.J., an attorney; Dr. Roswell P. Barnes of New York, associate general secretary of the National Council of Churches; Dr. Franklin C. Fry of New York, President of the United Lutheran Church in America; the Rt. Rev. Henry Knox Sherrill of New York, presiding bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Church; an unidentified interpreter; Dr. Eugene Carson Blake of Philadelphia, president of the National Council; Archimandrite Pemin of the Russian Orthodox Church; unidentified interpreter; Dr. Hubert Gezork of Newton Center, Mass., president of Andover Newtown Theological Seminary; and Paul B. Anderson of New York, secretary of the YMCA International Committee. The visit was sponsored by the National Council at the invitation of the Patriarch Alexei, head of the Russian church.
Creator:
Sovfoto/Eastfoto, Inc. (photographer)
Subject names:
Blake, Eugene Carson, 1906-1985., Fry, Franklin Clark, 1900-1968., Sherrill, Henry Knox, 1890-1980., Gezork, Herbert Johannes, 1900-1984., Anderson, Paul B., 1894-1985., Religious News Service--Archives., National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America.
Topics:
Ecumenical movement--Soviet Union.
Geographic subjects:
Soviet Union.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:11058
Title:
Protestant churchmen in Moscow.
Description:
Moscow--Metropolitan Nikolai of Krutitsky and Kolomna, second-ranking official of the Moscow patriarchate, greets Dr. Eugene Carson Blake of Philadelphia, president of the National Council of Churches, on the arrival here of nine American church officials for a ten-day visit. Dr. Blake is head of the delegation. The trip was sponsored by the National Council at the invitation of patriarch Alexei of Moscow, head of the Russian Orthodox Church. The American visit will be returned in June by a Russian Orthodox group. While in Moscow, the churchmen will confer and seek to establish continuing with Christian leaders of the Soviet Union. (Clergymen in background not identified.)
Creator:
Sovfoto/Eastfoto, Inc. (photographer), Wide World Photos, Inc. (photographer)
Subject names:
Blake, Eugene Carson, 1906-1985., Nikolaĭ, Metropolitan of Krutit︠s︡y and Kolomna, 1892-1961, Religious News Service--Archives.
Topics:
Ecumenical movement--Soviet Union.
Geographic subjects:
Soviet Union.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:11057
Title:
Churchmen visiting Russia.
Description:
These nine American Protestant leaders left here March 9 to visit Moscow where they will hold talks with Christian leaders there. Their 10-day trip marks the first phase of a two-way visit that will bring Russian churchmen to this country next June as guests of the National Council of Churches. Shown left to right are: front row, Bishop D. Ward Nichols of New York, head of the African Methodist Episcopal Church's First Episcopal District; the Rt. Rev. Henry Knox Sherrill of New York, presiding bishop of the Protestant Episcopal District; Dr. Eugene Carson Blake of Philadelphia, stated clerk of the Presbyterian Church USA and president of the National Council; and Charles C. Parlin of Englewood, N.J. (Methodist), an attorney and member of the National Council's General Board. In rear: Dr. Walter W. Van Kirk of Mt. Vernon, N.Y. (Methodist), executive director of the National Council's Department of International Affairs; Dr. Herbet Gezork of Newton Center, Mass. (Baptist), president of Andover Newton Theological Seminary; Dr. Roswell P. Barnes of New York (Presbyterian), the National Council's associate general secretary; Dr. Franklin Clark Fry of New York, president of the United Lutheran Church in America; and Paul B. Anderson of New York (Congregational Christian), secretary of the YMCA International Committee.
Creator:
National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. (photographer)
Subject names:
Blake, Eugene Carson, Nichols, D. Ward (Decatur Ward), 1900-, Sherrill, Henry Knox, 1890-1980., Van Kirk, Walter W. (Walter William), 1891-1956., Gezork, Herbert Johannes, 1900-1984., Fry, Franklin Clark, 1900-1968., Anderson, Paul B., 1894-1985., Religious News Service--Archives.
Topics:
Ecumenical movement--Soviet Union.
Geographic subjects:
Soviet Union.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:11056
Title:
Autonomous church formed in East Africa.
Description:
Nairobi, Kenya Colony--An autonomous Presbyterian Church of East Africa was established at a simple ceremony in St. Andrew's Church here with the Rev. R.G.M. Calderwood elected as its first moderator. In this photo, Mr. Calderwood, a recognized expert on the Kikuyu Tribe, addresses the congregation after his election. The new United Church comprises the former (native) Presbyterian Church of East Africa and the Church of Scotland's Overseas Presbytery of Kenya Colony.
Creator:
Hawkins, Dudley. (photographer), Kenya Information Office. (photographer)
Subject names:
Presbyterian Church of East Africa., Religious News Service--Archives.
Topics:
Kikuyu (African people)
Geographic subjects:
Nairobi (Kenya)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:11028
Title:
Catholic 'School on Wheels.'
Description:
Mountain View, Calif.--Public school children of St. Joseph's Parish here pose outside the 35-foot trailer-school in which they attend released-time religious instruction classes. The Rev. James B. Doyle of St. Joseph's, faced with a mushrooming congregation of San Francisco commuters, solved his scattered flock's educational problem by getting this 2 1/2 ton trailer for $2,800. The vehicle, which seats 55 pupils, pulls up to each public school before the youngsters are released. Father Doyle said that 900 public school children are under released-time instruction. St. Joseph's Parish is in the heart of a country area being rapidly developed with homes for persons working in San Francisco, 30 miles to the North.
Creator:
Monitor Photo (San Francisco, Calif.) (photographer)
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives.
Topics:
Catholic schools--California--Mountain View., Catholic Church--Education.
Geographic subjects:
Mountain View (Calif.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:11027
Title:
Lenten masses in G.E. Plant.
Description:
Bridgeport, Conn.--A noon mass is celebrated every Wednesday during Lent for employees at the General Electric Plant here. In this photo, an overflow crowd stands outside the auditorium while a mass is said inside. Officials of G.E. said similar arrangements were in effect at three other of the company's plants--in Burlington, VT., and Lynn and West Lynn, Mass.
Creator:
Reid, Alan. (photographer)
Subject names:
General Electric Company., Religious News Service--Archives.
Topics:
Lent.
Geographic subjects:
Bridgeport (Conn.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:11026
Title:
20,000 at Graham Honolulu Rally.
Description:
Honolulu, T.H.--American Evangelist Billy Graham addresses some 20,000 persons in Honolulu Stadium here. It was his only public rally in Hawaii. The cosmopolitan throng consisted of Caucasians, Hawaiians, Japanese, Chinese, Koreans, Negroes and Filipinos. Sprinkled about the stadium's field are camera fans shooting pictures of Mr. Graham as he speaks. In response to his invitation to "make decisions for Christ" an estimated 2,000 marched to the pulpit. Mr. Graham came here on his way home from an eight-week tour of India, the Philippines, Hong Kong, Formosa, Tokyo and Korea.
Creator:
Chun, Ella. (photographer)
Subject names:
Graham, Billy, 1918-, Religious News Service--Archives.
Topics:
Evangelists--United States., Revivals--Hawaii--Honolulu.
Geographic subjects:
Honolulu (Hawaii)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:11025
Title:
Jackie Robinson speaks at National Conference of Christians and Jews meeting.
Description:
Jackie Robinson speaks at National Conference of Christians and Jews meeting.
Creator:
Irving Kaufman Studios (New York, N.Y.) (photographer)
Subject names:
National Conference of Christians and Jews., Robinson, Jackie, 1919-1972., Religious News Service--Archives.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:11024
Title:
National Religious Publicity Council convention, 1956.
Description:
Group dinner.
Creator:
Religious Public Relations Council. (creator)
Subject names:
National Religious Publicity Council.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:5006

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