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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:
The churches and the international crisis, 1938.
Description:
A message to the churches from a Conference of Church Leaders held in New York City, January 24 and 25, 1938. Received by the Executive Committee of the Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America and commended to the churches for their careful attention and study.
Subject names:
Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America. Executive Committee.
Topics:
Interdenominational cooperation., Christian union--United States--Societies, etc., Councils and synods, Ecumenical.
Geographic subjects:
New York (N.Y.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:132209
Title:
Agricultural Missions, Inc.
Description:
Web site of Agricultural Missions, Inc., a steadfast response to rural poverty and injustice. Their mission is to support people of all faiths and spiritual consciousness around the world in the struggle to end the poverty and injustice that affect rural communities and work towards the creation of a peaceful and sustainable community.
Creator:
Agricultural Missions, Inc. (New York, N.Y.) (creator)
Subject names:
Agricultural Missions, Inc. (New York, N.Y.)
Topics:
Missions--Agricultural work., Rural missions., Church work with the poor.
Geographic subjects:
New York (N.Y.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:129960
Title:
Eugene Carson Blake, "Apostle, servant for Jesus' sake," 22 January 1962.
Description:
Eugene Carson Blake sermon recorded Jan. 22, 1962 at the Interchurch Center, New York, NY.
Creator:
Blake, Eugene Carson, 1906-1985. (speaker)
Subject names:
Blake, Eugene Carson, 1906-1985.
Topics:
Sermons, American--20th century.
Geographic subjects:
New York (N.Y.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:116498
Title:
Madison Avenue Presbyterian Church choir, 1963.
Description:
Choir test recordings for the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the U.S.A. National Radio Pulpit, recorded 21 November 1963, broadcast on NRP, January 1964. Engineer Harold Campbell.
Creator:
Madison Avenue Presbyterian Church (New York, N.Y.) (creator)
Subject names:
National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America.
Topics:
National radio pulpit.
Geographic subjects:
New York (N.Y.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:71693
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:
Iron Curtain gets Christmas programs.
Description:
New York--A special Christmas Day program broadcast to Poland by Radio Free Europe is recorded in a studio here by Polish-American children. Similar messages of sympathy and Christmas cheer were broadcast to Catholics and Protestants in other countries behind the Iron Curtain by RFE and the Voice of America. Among the countries receiving the programs were Czechoslovakia, Romania, Bulgaria, Albania, Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia.
Creator:
Radio Free Europe. (photographer)
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives.
Topics:
Christmas radio programs--Poland., Children's radio programs--Poland., Communist countries.
Geographic subjects:
Poland.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:11029
Title:
Billy Graham Crusade.
Description:
18,500 Jam Garden for Graham Crusade. New York--Some 18,500 persons jammed Madison Square Garden to hear Evangelist Billy Graham open his six-weeks New York crusade. The evangelist spoke for 45 minutes from a nine-foor platform erected at one end of the huge arena. He will give a series of Gospel sermons every night during the crusade. After his address at the 90-minute rally, some 485 men, women and teenagers approached the rostrum to make "decisions for Christ," the largest number to do so at the opening of any Graham crusade in this country. Mr. Graham was invited to come this city by the Protestant Council of the City of New York.
Creator:
Goldstein, Sam. (photographer), International News Photos (New York, N.Y.) (photographer)
Subject names:
Graham, Billy, 1918-, Religious News Service--Archives.
Topics:
Evangelists--United States., Revivals--United States.
Geographic subjects:
New York (N.Y.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:6998
Title:
UPCUSA Civil Rights demonstration.
Description:
New York--A peaceful pre-Independence Day demonstration for racial equality was held by some 500 clergymen and members of the United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. The placard-carrying demonstrators marched for 45 minutes in a City Hall Plaza area, then heard addresses by Mayor Robert F. Wagner, center, and Dr. W. Eugene Houston, left, a Harlem pastor who heads the presbytery's new commission on religion and race. The Mayor called for enactment of President Kennedy's civil rights proposals and pledged continuing efforts toward greater racial equality in New York City. Dr. Houston warned against the city "dragging its feet"on integration and called for acceleration of school desegregation.
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., Wagner, Robert F. (Robert Ferdinand),, 1910-1991.
Topics:
Civil rights demonstrations--New York (State)--New York--20th century., Civil rights--Religious aspects--20th century., Civil rights--New York (State)--New York--20th century.
Geographic subjects:
New York (N.Y.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:6993
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:
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:
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:
"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

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