Religious News Service Photographs

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Conceived by journalist Louis Minsky (1909-1957), Religious News Service (RNS) was established in 1934 as an affiliated but independently managed agency of the National Conference of Jews and Christians (later the National Conference of Christians and Jews), and was dedicated to providing authoritative and bias-free news about religion and ethics to both the secular and religious press. This collection contains photographs documenting Protestant, Catholic, Orthodox, and Jewish groups. Coverage of Protestants (especially mainline Protestants) and Catholics constitutes the bulk of the images. View the collection guide to learn more. Digitization of some of the images in this collection made possible by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities. Featured image: Father James Groppi, the civil rights activist priest from Milwaukee, and militant leader Rennie Davis are taken into custody during an anti war demonstration a block from the White House.

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Title:
Russian Orthodox group visits Church of the Brethren.
Description:
Text transcribed from caption: P-29864 RUSSIAN ORTHODOX GROUP VISITS CHURCH OF THE BRETHREN ELGIN, Ill. -- A six-member delegation from the Russian Orthodox Church, headed by Archmandrite Juvenalis, left, head of the Church’s mission in Jerusalem, toured several states recently as guests of the Church of the Brethren. Greeting the visitors at Brethren headquarters in Elgin, Ill., is Dr. Norman J. Baugher, second from left, general secretary of the U.S. denomination. Others shown are Miss Lydia Popandopulo, a staff member of the Moscow Patriarchate office, and Archpriest Eugen Ambartzumov, dean of Holy Trinity Cathedral in Leningrad. A group of six Brethren leaders will visit the Russian Church on Oct. 4-19. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (B-Ill-9B-63-NBM)
Creator:
Church of the Brethren. (publisher), Elgin Daily Courier News (Elgin, Ill.) (photographer)
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., Russkai︠a︡ pravoslavnai︠a︡ t︠s︡erkovʹ--Clergy., Russkai︠a︡ pravoslavnai︠a︡ t︠s︡erkovʹ--Relations--Church of the Brethren., Church of the Brethren--Clergy., Church of the Brethren--Relations--Russkai͡a pravoslavnai͡a t͡serkovʹ, Baugher, Norman J., 1917-1968., Popandopulo, Lydia., Ambartzumov, Eugen., Iuvenaliĭ, Archbishop of Kursk and Rylʹsk.
Topics:
Clergy--Illinois--Elgin., Ecumenical movement--United States., Ecumenical movement--Soviet Union.
Geographic subjects:
Elgin (Ill.), Soviet Union.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:358102
Title:
For immediate release by Religious News Service.
Creator:
Church of the Brethren. (author)
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., Russkai︠a︡ pravoslavnai︠a︡ t︠s︡erkovʹ--Clergy., Russkai︠a︡ pravoslavnai︠a︡ t︠s︡erkovʹ--Relations--Church of the Brethren., Church of the Brethren--Clergy., Church of the Brethren--Relations--Russkai͡a pravoslavnai͡a t͡serkovʹ, Baugher, Norman J., 1917-1968., Popandopulo, Lydia., Ambartzumov, Eugen., Iuvenaliĭ, Archbishop of Kursk and Rylʹsk.
Topics:
Clergy--Illinois--Elgin., Ecumenical movement--United States., Ecumenical movement--Soviet Union.
Geographic subjects:
Elgin (Ill.), Soviet Union.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:357816
Title:
WCC executives hold first session in Russia.
Description:
Text transcribed from caption: P-30644 WCC EXECUTIVES HOLD FIRST SESSION IN RUSSIA ODESSA [sic. ODESA], Russia -- A five-day business session of the World Council of Churches, held for the first time in the Soviet Union, was opened at Odessa [sic. Odesa] by Dr. Franklin Clark Fry of New York (standing, bottom left), president of the Lutheran Church in America and chairman of the WCC's Executive and Central Committees. To his left are Metropolitan Nikodim of Leningrad, head of the foreign affairs department of the Russian Orthodox Church, and Dr. W.A. Visser 't Hooft, WCC general secretary. Dr. Visser 't Hooft, visiting Moscow in advance of the business meetings, preached a sermon to an overflow congregation in the Orthodox Church of St. Peter and Paul (top, left). Serving as his translator was Archpriest Vitaly M. Borovoy, vice chairman of the Moscow Patriarchate's Office of External Church Affairs and a former representative to WCC headquarters at Geneva, Switzerland. Delivering a major statement at the Odessa [sic. Odesa] session was Dr. O. Frederick Nolde (standing, bottom right), director of the WCC's Commission of the Churches on International Affairs. The statement, endorsed by the executives, urged equal freedom for both atheists and members of religious groups in expressing and manifesting their beliefs. The WCC leaders agreed, on the invitation of Sir Francis Ibiam (standing, top right), governor of Eastern Nigeria and one of the six WCC presidents, to hold their January 1965 meeting at Enugu, capital city of his country. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (2-NY-2E-64-NBM)
Creator:
Latin American Mission (San José, Costa Rica) (author)
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., Fry, Franklin Clark, 1900-1968., Lutheran Church in America--Clergy., World Council of Churches. Executive Committee., World Council of Churches. Central Committee., Nikodim, Metropolitan of Leningrad and Novgorod, 1929-1978., Russkai︠a︡ pravoslavnai︠a︡ t︠s︡erkovʹ, Visser ’t Hooft, Willem Adolph, 1900-1985., World Council of Churches., Borovoy, Vitaly M., Nolde, O. Frederick (Otto Frederick), 1899-1972., Commission of the Churches on International Affairs., Ibiam, Akanu., United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A.
Topics:
Congresses and conventions--Ukraine--Odesa., Interdenominational cooperation., Ecumenical movement., Theists--Relations--Atheists., Freedom of religion.
Geographic subjects:
Odesa (Ukraine), Soviet Union.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:353815
Title:
Interview with Abraham Kalinski in Stockholm by the Swedish Radio's Russian Section.
Description:
Interview in which Abraham Kalinski discusses his claim to have been in the same prison as Raoul Wallenberg.
Creator:
Kalinski, Abraham. (interviewee), Raoul Wallenberg Association. (publisher)
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., Sveriges radio aktiebolag., Wallenberg, Raoul, 1912-1947.
Topics:
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Hungary--Budapest., World War, 1939-1945--Jews--Rescue--Hungary--Budapest., Prisoners of war--Soviet Union.
Geographic subjects:
Stockholm (Sweden), Soviet Union.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:149020
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

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