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History of Presbyterian mission work and missionaries in foreign fields. Featured image: First team of Presbyterian Church in the U.S. missionaries in Korea, November 1892.

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Title:
Mother and baby.
Description:
No. 1532, Tyre, Lebanon, March 1952. Too little, too late! The tiny Arab refugee baby, shown here in his mother's arms, is now dead. When discovered by Christian welfare workers, he was already a living skeleton, his tiny body wasted from the ravages of malnutrition. Though emergency food of high nutritive quality was immediately supplied the child was already too weak to respond. There are many Arab children like these among Palestinian refugees, and it is only occasionally that Christian relief can save them, this mother, clad in Western church-contributed clothing, is now heartbroken, because the little one which had become so dear to her, especially under the care she had so desperately rendered with little means, is now gone from her miserable life. (WCC photo)
Creator:
World Council of Churches. Division of Inter-Church Aid, Refugee, and World Service. (photographer)
Subject names:
Presbyterian Church in the U.S. Board of World Missions., United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East.
Topics:
Church work with refugees., Refugees, Palestinian Arab., Refugees--Lebanon--Tyre., Refugees--Palestine.
Geographic subjects:
Tyre (Lebanon)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:83452
Title:
A young child in Salt Hospital, Jordan.
Description:
United Nations Relief and Works Agency. Salt Hospital, Jordan. This hospital which has 65 surgical and maternity beds is the only one which is purely devoted to the needs of the 450,000 refugees in Jordan, although by arrangements with local hospitals some 860 beds can be used. Salt Hospital is staffed entirely by Palestinian doctors, nurses, and orderlies. This picture shows a small patient who seems to be thanking the churches and the United Nations for their care.
Creator:
World Council of Churches. Division of Inter-Church Aid, Refugee, and World Service. (photographer)
Subject names:
Presbyterian Church in the U.S. Board of World Missions., United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East.
Topics:
Church work with refugees., Refugees--Palestine., Refugees--Jordan., Refugees, Palestinian Arab.
Geographic subjects:
Jordan.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:83437
Title:
A widow and her children.
Description:
Gaza. Fatmeh Hamadeh from Gaza. Widow, has 5 children; 4 of them are twins of 5 and 7 years. Husband died 3 years ago as a result of an air raid in Gaza. They live in a room made of mud and covered with rags. No other source of income except the rations they draw from UNRWA. The children's daily food consists of bread and salt. Issued with flour, clothing, blankets and shoes. [WCC photo]
Creator:
World Council of Churches. Division of Inter-Church Aid, Refugee, and World Service. (photographer)
Subject names:
Presbyterian Church in the U.S. Board of World Missions., United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East.
Topics:
Church work with refugees., Refugees--Palestine., Refugees--Gaza Strip., Refugees, Palestinian Arab.
Geographic subjects:
Gaza Strip.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:83435
Title:
Children receiving an extra meal from the United Nations Relief and Works Agency.
Description:
United Nations Relief and Works Agency. In addition to their ordinary rations, undernourished children receive a hot meal a day in UNRWA's supplementary feeding centres.
Creator:
World Council of Churches. Division of Inter-Church Aid, Refugee, and World Service. (photographer)
Subject names:
Presbyterian Church in the U.S. Board of World Missions., United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East.
Topics:
Church work with refugees., Refugees--Palestine., Refugees, Palestinian Arab.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:83434
Title:
Undernourished refugees receive an extra meal from the United Nations Relief and Works Agency.
Description:
United Nations Relief and Works Agency. In addition to their normal rations, refugees who are suffering from under-nourishment receive a hot mid-day meal, which is prepared in accordance with modern dietary principles at UNRWA's supplementary feeding centers. The majority of the recipients are children, but the old and sick also benefit. At present, 26,888 free meals are served monthly at a cost of 24,199.20 dollars. (1$ = 3.50 Lebanese pounds approx.)
Creator:
World Council of Churches. Division of Inter-Church Aid, Refugee, and World Service. (photographer)
Subject names:
Presbyterian Church in the U.S. Board of World Missions., United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East.
Topics:
Church work with refugees., Refugees--Palestine., Refugees, Palestinian Arab.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:83427
Title:
A kindergarten class at the Dekwaneh refugee camp.
Description:
Palestine 214. The refugee problem is largely a problem of youth, for the total of 868,000 refugees, more than half are below sixteen years old. Furthermore, with the high birth rate of 40.8 per thousand, some 36,000 refugee babies were born last year. This picture shows the kindergarten at Dekwani camp, Lebanon, where, although there is no backyard, and no blackboard, few books, and the children sit barefoot on the floor, there is a keen attendance.
Creator:
World Council of Churches. Division of Inter-Church Aid, Refugee, and World Service. (photographer)
Subject names:
Presbyterian Church in the U.S. Board of World Missions., United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East.
Topics:
Church work with refugees., Refugees--Palestine., Refugees--Lebanon--Beirut., Refugees, Palestinian Arab.
Geographic subjects:
Beirut (Lebanon)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:83417
Title:
Children receiving an extra meal from the United Nations Relief and Works Agency.
Description:
United Nations Relief and Works Agency. In addition to their ordinary rations, undernourished children receive a hot meal a day in UNRWA's supplementary feeding centers.
Creator:
World Council of Churches. Division of Inter-Church Aid, Refugee, and World Service. (photographer)
Subject names:
Presbyterian Church in the U.S. Board of World Missions., United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East.
Topics:
Church work with refugees., Refugees--Palestine., Refugees, Palestinian Arab.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:83415
Title:
A student reads at a school located in the Dekwaneh refugee camp.
Description:
Palestine 215 The refugee problem is largely a problem of youth, for the total of 860,000 refugees more than half are below sixteen years old. At this school a lesson in Arabic is going on. This school in the Dekwani [Dekwaneh] camp in Lebanon has 155 pupils who need books, stationery, and blackboards.
Creator:
World Council of Churches. Division of Inter-Church Aid, Refugee, and World Service. (photographer)
Subject names:
Presbyterian Church in the U.S. Board of World Missions., United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East.
Topics:
Church work with refugees., Refugees--Palestine., Refugees--Lebanon--Beirut., Refugees, Palestinian Arab.
Geographic subjects:
Beirut (Lebanon)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:83414
Title:
Group of children.
Description:
Among the 750,000 Arab refugees are many children like those in this camp.
Creator:
World Council of Churches. Division of Inter-Church Aid, Refugee, and World Service. (photographer)
Subject names:
Presbyterian Church in the U.S. Board of World Missions., United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East.
Topics:
Church work with refugees., Refugees--Palestine., Refugees, Palestinian Arab.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:83411
Title:
A mother and two children weave baskets.
Description:
Two Arab refugee children watch their mother weave a basket to carry food. The little girl wears a dress made from materials contributed by Christian churches. Note bare feet and dirt floor of the tent. 850,000 homeless Arabs who formerly lived in Israel are now living under conditions like these in miserable tent camps scattered from Egypt to the Lebanon. (World Copyright fee paid by World Council of Churches to cover use in church periodicals only.)
Creator:
World Council of Churches. Division of Inter-Church Aid, Refugee, and World Service. (photographer)
Subject names:
Presbyterian Church in the U.S. Board of World Missions., United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East.
Topics:
Church work with refugees., Refugees--Palestine., Refugees, Palestinian Arab.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:83406
Title:
Refugee children at unhygenic water supply.
Description:
1951. No. 1376 (UNRWA 1005) Israel. Unhygenic water supply for refugee children in Jordan.
Creator:
World Council of Churches. Division of Inter-Church Aid, Refugee, and World Service. (photographer)
Subject names:
Presbyterian Church in the U.S. Board of World Missions., United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East.
Topics:
Church work with refugees., Refugees--Palestine., Refugees--Jordan., Refugees, Palestinian Arab.
Geographic subjects:
Jordan.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:83400
Title:
Families receiving meals at United Nations Relief and Works Agency facility.
Description:
United Nations Relief and Works Agency no. 13518. In most of the camps and in towns where there are concentration of refugees, UNRAW maintain Infant Health Welfare Centres. Here mothers may come for pre-natal care, to learn mother-craft and bring their children to attend the special clinics up to the age of two. Each centre has its own kitchens which serve milk and a daily cooked meal to all babies under two years old. Visited at first with some reticence, the centres have become immensely popular with refugees mothers and today have an average of 21,000 visits per month.
Creator:
World Council of Churches. Division of Inter-Church Aid, Refugee, and World Service. (photographer)
Subject names:
Presbyterian Church in the U.S. Board of World Missions., United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East.
Topics:
Church work with refugees., Refugees--Palestine., Refugees, Palestinian Arab.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:83391
Title:
Refugee family bathing.
Description:
1951. No. 1374 (UNRWA 1009). Rafah camp, Gaza. The camp has a school where 1796 boys and girls receive education. This picture shows a refugee family having a bath. 2 litres of water for three children. Note the characteristic physical condition of the child on the mother's knee due to under-nourishment.
Creator:
World Council of Churches. Division of Inter-Church Aid, Refugee, and World Service. (photographer)
Subject names:
Presbyterian Church in the U.S. Board of World Missions., United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East.
Topics:
Church work with refugees., Refugees--Palestine., Refugees--Gaza Strip., Refugees, Palestinian Arab.
Geographic subjects:
Gaza Strip., Palestine.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:83389
Title:
Refugees waiting for a meal.
Description:
1951. No. 1318. Palestine. 5. Clutching pans, pots, and old tin cans, Arab refugees line up for relief food at the food kitchen of the Lutheran World Federation in Old Jerusalem. (Photo from Luth. World. Fed.)
Creator:
World Council of Churches. Division of Inter-Church Aid, Refugee, and World Service. (photographer), Lutheran World Federation. (creator)
Subject names:
Presbyterian Church in the U.S. Board of World Missions., United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East.
Topics:
Church work with refugees., Refugees--Palestine., Refugees--Jerusalem., Refugees, Palestinian Arab.
Geographic subjects:
Jerusalem., Palestine.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:83387
Title:
Group of boys in a book binding class.
Description:
United Nations Relief and Works Agency. February 1951. No. 6014. Imam Shafi’I Gaza. Book-binding class. 12 boys are learning a trade in preparation for the future when they will have to earn a living. Cloth for 125 books has been made and the books have been bound in a satisfactory manner. Books for the Circulating Library run by the Welfare Section have been sent to this training school for binding.
Creator:
World Council of Churches. Division of Inter-Church Aid, Refugee, and World Service. (photographer)
Subject names:
Presbyterian Church in the U.S. Board of World Missions., United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East.
Topics:
Church work with refugees., Refugees--Palestine., Refugees--Gaza Strip., Refugees, Palestinian Arab.
Geographic subjects:
Gaza Strip., Palestine.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:83384
Title:
Student writing on blackboard.
Description:
"We want to go home," an Arab schoolboy writes on the blackboard in a refugee camp in Hebron. This longing to return to homes in Palestine is the dominant, almost-exclusive desire of 850,000 Arab refugees in camps scattered from Egypt to the Lebanon (except in Israel, where their former homes are). (World Copyright fee paid by World Council of Churches to cover use in church periodicals only.) [Published in April 1952 Presbyterian Survey.]
Creator:
World Council of Churches. Division of Inter-Church Aid, Refugee, and World Service. (photographer)
Subject names:
Presbyterian Church in the U.S. Board of World Missions., United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East.
Topics:
Church work with refugees., Refugees--Palestine., Refugees--West Bank., Refugees, Palestinian Arab.
Geographic subjects:
West Bank., Palestine.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:83383
Title:
Refugee mother and children.
Description:
Thousands of Arab refugees will shiver in their miserable rags this winter, sheltered only by patched, threadbare tents. 850,000 Arab refugees from Palestine live under these conditions. (World Copyright fee paid by World Council of Churches to cover use in church periodicals only.)
Creator:
World Council of Churches. Division of Inter-Church Aid, Refugee, and World Service. (photographer)
Subject names:
Presbyterian Church in the U.S. Board of World Missions., United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East.
Topics:
Church work with refugees., Refugees--Palestine., Refugees, Palestinian Arab.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:83380

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