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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:
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:
Japan Committee, June 1944-Dec 1950.
Description:
Includes minutes, reports, and correspondence of the committee.
Creator:
Foreign Missions Conference of North America. Committee on East Asia. (author)
Subject names:
Foreign Missions Conference of North America--Archives.
Topics:
Missions--Interdenominational cooperation., Missions--Japan.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:141701
Title:
Japan Mission Deputation, Sept 1945-Sept 1946; n.d.
Description:
Includes minutes, reports, and correspondence of the committee.
Creator:
Foreign Missions Conference of North America. Committee on East Asia. (author)
Subject names:
Foreign Missions Conference of North America--Archives.
Topics:
Missions--Interdenominational cooperation., Missions--Japan.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:141640
Title:
Interboard Committee for Christian Work in Japan, April 1947-Dec 1950.
Description:
Includes minutes, reports, and correspondence of the committee.
Creator:
Interboard Committee for Christian Work in Japan. (author)
Subject names:
Foreign Missions Conference of North America--Archives.
Topics:
Missions--Interdenominational cooperation., Missions--Japan.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:141445
Title:
The Church herald.
Description:
A Christian weekly serving the Reformed Church in America. Caption: Sukeman Itami, Japanese American. Includes article on Protestant deputation to Japan.
Subject names:
Foreign Missions Conference of North America--Archives.
Topics:
Reformed Church in America--Periodicals., Missions--Interdenominational cooperation., Missions--Japan.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:141420
Title:
A North Vietnamese nun.
Description:
Hanoi -- A North Vietnamese nun, Ntuyen Tkhi Choung, looks sadly at signs of war in Hanoi. The city's workers, unlike the nun, all bear arms. Ringed with anti-aircraft guns and missile sites, the city is on a constant alert for air raids.
Creator:
Daily express (London, England) (photographer)
Subject names:
Religious News Service, Archives.
Topics:
Nuns--Vietnam--Hanoi., War--Religious aspects--Catholic Church., Vietnam War, 1961-1975., War and society--Vietnam--Hanoi.
Geographic subjects:
Hanoi (Vietnam)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:139021
Title:
Pope marks Polish Christian millennium, 1966.
Description:
Vatican City -- Amid the grandeur of St. Peter's Basilica's main alter, Pope Paul VI addresses a huge congregation at a Mass marking the 1,000th anniversary of Christianity in Poland. Thousands of Polish pilgrims from various parts of the world were gathered in the basilica, along with many church and other dignitaries. Pope Paul criticized as "not justified" the Polish government's refusal to permit a papal visit to millennium observances.
Creator:
United Press International. (photographer)
Subject names:
1897-1978., VI, Paul, Pope, Basilica di San Pietro in Vaticano., Religious News Service--Archives., Catholic Church--History--20th century.
Topics:
Christianity--Poland., Christian pilgrims and pilgrimages--Vatican City., Mass.
Geographic subjects:
Vatican City.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:139020
Title:
Famine in India.
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives.
Topics:
Famines--India.
Geographic subjects:
India.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:139019
Title:
Henry Smith Leiper memorial, 1975.
Description:
Henry Smith Leiper memorial, audio cassette recording of service, 1975 January 28.
Subject names:
Leiper, Henry Smith, 1891-1975.
Topics:
Memorial service., Ecumenists--United States., Missionaries--Oklahoma., Missionaries--China--20th century.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:139008
Title:
Henry Smith Leiper memorial, 1975.
Description:
Henry Smith Leiper memorial, audio cassette recording of service, 1975 January 28.
Subject names:
Leiper, Henry Smith, 1891-1975.
Topics:
Memorial service., Ecumenists--United States., Missionaries--Oklahoma., Missionaries--China--20th century.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:139007
Title:
Henry Smith Leiper memorial, 1975.
Description:
Henry Smith Leiper memorial, audio cassette recording of service, 1975 January 28.
Subject names:
Leiper, Henry Smith, 1891-1975.
Topics:
Memorial service., Ecumenists--United States., Missionaries--Oklahoma., Missionaries--China--20th century.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:139006
Title:
Henry Smith Leiper memorial, 1975.
Description:
Henry Smith Leiper memorial, audio cassette recording of service, 1975 January 28.
Subject names:
Leiper, Henry Smith, 1891-1975.
Topics:
Memorial service., Ecumenists--United States., Missionaries--Oklahoma., Missionaries--China--20th century.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:139005
Title:
Horse-drawn carriages in Yugoslavia.
Description:
One of the 18 vehicles in which the Slovakian Lutherans took away their clothing and shoes from the Vrbas deaconess-house.
Topics:
Horse-drawn vehicles--Yugoslavia.
Geographic subjects:
Yugoslavia.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:132382
Title:
First ecumenical conference in Yugoslavia, 1948.
Description:
Group photograph of the first conference of all denominations, held on 20th May 1948 at Novi Vrbas, Yugoslavia, which represents a victory of the ecumenical movement. Left to right: Josef Gara, Reformed pastor. Michael Gerber, German Lutheran curate. Franz Sostarec, Hungarian Lutheran senior. Peter Mojsovic, President of the Free Brethren (Makedone). Four Reformed pastors - Julius Röhrig, Dr. Alexander Varga, Ludwig Poth, Stephan Csete. Michael Kovacs, Reformed senior. Samuel Starke, Slovakian Lutheran Bishop. Georg Sebele, Methodist Superintendent.
Subject names:
Gara, Josef., Gerber, Michael., Sostarec, Franz., Mojsovic, Peter., Röhrig, Julius., Varga, Alexander., Poth, Ludwig., Csete, Stephan., Kovacs, Michael., Starke, Samuel., Sebele, Georg.
Topics:
Interdenominational cooperation--Yugoslavia., Ecumenical movement--Yugoslavia., Christian union conversations--Yugoslavia.
Geographic subjects:
Yugoslavia.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:132381
Title:
Unbound:
Description:
Unbound: An Interactive Journal of Christian Social Justice (\u201cUnbound\u201d) is an online journal and community that examines, expresses, and provokes social justice as inspired by the prophetic gospel of Jesus Christ. As both a journal and a forum for conversation, action and community building, Unbound is at once the inheritor of the print journal Church and Society (98 years running) and the innovator of an interactive approach to supporting social ministry. The journal is freely available, and four to six times a year, it issues a theme-based collection of articles written by academics, clergy, lay-leaders, and practitioners.
Topics:
Social justice--Religious aspects--Christianity., Electronic journals., Electronic discussion groups., Christian literature.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:129948
Title:
Mission Crossroads PC(USA).
Description:
Mission Crossroads is a web-based wisdom community which facilitates networking among mission participants, aids communication among members of mission-related groups, and provides a forum in which those engaged in mission may share ideas and experiences, both good and bad, so that future mission endeavors can be more effective.
Creator:
Mission Crossroads PC(U.S.A.) (creator)
Subject names:
Mission Crossroads PC(U.S.A.)
Topics:
Electronic discussion groups., Presbyterian Church--Missions.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:129906
Title:
James Baldwin, "White Racism or World Community," July 7, 1968, tape 2.
Description:
Address by James Baldwin to a meeting of the World Council of Churches in Uppsala.
Creator:
Baldwin, James, 1924-1987. (speaker)
Subject names:
National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America., World Council of Churches., Carmichael, Stokely, 1941-1998.
Topics:
Race relations--Religious aspects--Christianity.
Geographic subjects:
Uppsala (Sweden)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:116377
Title:
James Baldwin, "White Racism or World Community," July 7, 1968, tape 1.
Description:
Address by James Baldwin to a meeting of the World Council of Churches in Uppsala.
Creator:
Baldwin, James, 1924-1987. (speaker)
Subject names:
National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America., World Council of Churches., Carmichael, Stokely, 1941-1998.
Topics:
Race relations--Religious aspects--Christianity.
Geographic subjects:
Uppsala (Sweden)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:116376
Title:
Christian Berg, "Pilgrimage."
Description:
A National Council of the Churches of Christ in the U.S.A. broadcast interview of Christian Berg, West Berlin relief worker, for the World Refugee Year of 1959-1960.
Creator:
Berg, Christian. (interviewee), Howe, Quincy. (interviewer)
Subject names:
National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America., Church World Service.
Topics:
World Refugee Year, 1959-1960., Refugees--Germany--Berlin--Pastoral care of.
Geographic subjects:
Berlin (Germany)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:116372
Title:
Japan International Christian University, June 1946-May 1949.
Description:
Correspondence and reports related to the establishment of a Christian university in Japan.
Subject names:
Foreign Missions Conference of North America--Archives., Barnes, Roswell P. (Roswell Parkhurst), 1901-1990., Diffendorfer, Ralph E. (Ralph Eugene), 1879-1951., Brumbaugh, Thoburn T. (Thoburn Taylor), 1896-, Van Kirk, Walter W. (Walter William), 1891-1956.
Topics:
Missions--Interdenominational cooperation., Missions--Educational work--Japan.
Geographic subjects:
Japan.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:90959

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