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:
American Sunday School Union papers, 1817-1915.
Creator:
Sokolosky, Barbara A. (editor)
Subject names:
American Sunday-School Union., American Sunday-School Union--Archives--Microform catalogs.
Topics:
Protestant churches--Publishers and publishing.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:248
Title:
Group of braceros with guitarist.
Description:
Group of braceros with guitarist, Arkansas, October 1958.
Creator:
Zalaveta, Hector. (creator), Zavaleta, Genie. (creator)
Subject names:
National Council of the Churches of Christ in the U.S.A. Migrant Ministry.
Topics:
Migrant labor.
Geographic subjects:
Arkansas.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:2145
Title:
Trick or Treat.
Description:
Columbia, Mo. -- These Columbia high school students are typical of the thousands of teen-agers and elementary school youngsters who took part in trick or treat fun for the United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund (UNICEF) on Halloween night. Largely church-sponsored, the project is an annual affair conducted to help the hungry and sick children abroad with hospital care and food. The movement started in 1950 by the Rev. Clyde Allison, pastor of the Bridesburg Presbyterian church in Philadelphia. Today, the interfaith project benefits millions of youngsters in all parts of the world.
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., UNICEF., Allison, Clyde., Bridesburg Presbyterian Church (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Topics:
Church work with youth--Missouri--Columbia., High school students--Missouri--Columbia., Halloween.
Geographic subjects:
Columbia (Mo.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:2147
Title:
Logo of the NCC Migrant Ministry program.
Description:
Logo of the NCC Migrant Ministry program, from the back of the 1967 Migrant Ministry Annual Report.
Subject names:
National Council of the Churches of Christ in the U.S.A. Migrant Ministry.
Topics:
Migrant labor.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:2294
Title:
4 Braceros.
Description:
4 Braceros returning to same farm every year.
Creator:
Zalaveta, Genie. (creator), Zavaleta, Hector. (creator)
Subject names:
National Council of the Churches of Christ in the U.S.A. Migrant Ministry.
Topics:
Migrant labor.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:2295
Title:
Braceros attend English classes in church.
Creator:
Zalaveta, Hector. (creator), Zavaleta, Genie. (creator)
Subject names:
National Council of the Churches of Christ in the U.S.A. Migrant Ministry.
Topics:
Migrant labor., Church work with migrant labor.
Geographic subjects:
Roswell (N.M.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:2296
Title:
Migrant Ministry staff helping cotton farmer.
Description:
Migrant Ministry staff helping cotton farmer understand Braceros.
Creator:
Zalaveta, Hector. (creator), Zavaleta, Genie. (creator)
Subject names:
National Council of the Churches of Christ in the U.S.A. Migrant Ministry.
Topics:
Migrant labor., Church work with migrant labor.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:2314
Title:
Vaudois Hymn.
Description:
Adapted from the Hymn of the Vaudios Mountaineers. By the Rev. C. Silvester Horne, M.A.
Creator:
Horne, C. Silvester (Charles Silvester), 1865-1914. (author)
Topics:
Waldenses.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:4246
Title:
Vaudois Hymn.
Description:
Adapted from the Hymn of the Vaudios Mountaineers. By the Rev. C. Silvester Horne, M.A.
Creator:
Horne, C. Silvester (Charles Silvester), 1865-1914. (Author)
Topics:
Waldenses.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:4245
Title:
Vaudois Hymn.
Description:
Adapted from the Hymn of the Vaudios Mountaineers. By the Rev. C. Silvester Horne, M.A.
Creator:
Horne, C. Silvester (Charles Silvester), 1865-1914. (author)
Topics:
Waldenses.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:4248
Title:
International Affairs Commission.
Description:
DCL&M-DS&C-International Affairs Commission-Fifth National Study Conference on the Churches & World Order-Cleveland, O., Nov. 18-21, 1958.
Creator:
Rebman Photo Service. (photographer)
Subject names:
National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America.--Archives.
Geographic subjects:
Cleveland (Ohio)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:4273
Title:
International Affairs Commission.
Description:
DCL&M-DS&C-International Affairs Commission-Fifth National Study Conference on the Churches & World Order-Cleveland, O., Nov. 18-21, 1958.
Creator:
Rebman Photo Service. (photographer)
Subject names:
National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America.--Archives.
Geographic subjects:
Cleveland (Ohio)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:4274
Title:
Student addresses the General Assembly of the National Council of Churches in Detroit.
Description:
Attempts to give draft card to NCC: James D. Rubins, 21, a student at Hope College, Holland, Mich., addresses the General Assembly of the National Council of Churches in Detroit. He sought to present his Selective Service card to the delegates, to be held "in trust." Mr. Rubins, a member of the Reformed Church in America, asked the NCC to put "action behind a policy position backing religious obedience and civil disobedience." Assembly delegates voted down Mr. Rubins attempt to surrender his draft card.
Creator:
Religious News Service. (creator)
Subject names:
National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America., Religious News Service., Rubins, James D., Hope College., Reformed Church in America.
Topics:
Draft., Vietnam War, 1961-1975--Conscientious objectors., Christian college students.
Geographic subjects:
Detroit (Mich.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:4275
Title:
Dr. Dudley Ward speaks at an NCC General Board meeting.
Description:
NCC Board Discusses Black Manifesto: At top, Dr. Dudley Ward, head of the United Methodist Board of Christian Social Concerns, discusses the issue of National Council of Churches response to the Black Manifesto during an NCC General Board meeting in Indianapolis. Dr. Ward opposed the placing of spending limitations on the $500,000 the board has asked member Churches to give to two organizations supporting black economic development. No funds were asked directly for the Black Economic Development Conference, which issued the Manifesto. On the far right is Dr. J. Edward Carothers, head of the National Division of the United Methodist Board of Missions.
Creator:
Religious News Service. (creator)
Subject names:
National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America., Ward, Dudley., Black Economic Development Conference. Black manifesto., United Methodist Church (U.S.). Board of Christian Social Concerns., Carothers, J. Edward., United Methodist Church (U.S.). Board of Missions. National Division.
Geographic subjects:
Indianapolis (Ind.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:4276
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
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:
Martin Luther King, Jr., "Paul's Letter to American Christians," tape 1.
Description:
Sermon delivered to the United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Commission on Ecumenical Missions and Relations on prognosis for mission work, social justice, etc., at a meeting in Pittsburgh, Pa., June 3, 1958.
Creator:
King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968. (speaker)
Subject names:
United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Commission on Ecumenical Mission and Relations., King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968.
Topics:
Presbyterian Church--Missions., Civil rights--United States., Social justice--Religious aspects--Christianity.
Geographic subjects:
Pittsburgh (Pa.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:4870
Title:
Martin Luther King, Jr., "Paul's Letter to American Christians," tape 2.
Description:
Sermon delivered to the United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Commission on Ecumenical Missions and Relations on prognosis for mission work, social justice, etc., at a meeting in Pittsburgh, Pa., June 3, 1958.
Creator:
King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968. (speaker)
Subject names:
United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Commission on Ecumenical Mission and Relations., King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968.
Topics:
Presbyterian Church--Missions., Civil rights--United States., Social justice--Religious aspects--Christianity.
Geographic subjects:
Pittsburgh (Pa.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:4871
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:
"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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