Religious News Service Photographs

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Text transcribed from caption: SPECIAL COVER PAGE SERIES. #24 LOAF-LIKE ROOF TOPS El Oved, a small town in the Sahara Desert. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (AdD-g-9265)
Creator:
Religious News Service. (publisher)
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., El Oved (Sahara)
Topics:
Architecture--Sahara., Architecture--Africa, North.
Geographic subjects:
Sahara., Africa, North.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:357536
Creator:
Smith, Kline & French Laboratories. (publisher)
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., Carlson, Paul--Death and burial., Littleford, Philip., Evangelical Covenant Church of America--Missions--Congo (Democratic Republic)
Topics:
Physicians--Congo (Democratic Republic), Missionaries--Congo (Democratic Republic)
Geographic subjects:
Congo (Democratic Republic), Congo (Democratic Republic)--History--Civil War, 1960-1965.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:356701
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Text transcribed from caption: PC-31862 SAFE FROM CONGOLESE REBELS LEOPOLDVILLE -- Wrapped in a blanket, a small girl is carried by an American Protestant missionary as they leave plane in Leopoldville after flight from Stanleyville. The girl and Alfred Larson of East Islip, N.Y., a missionary of the Unevangelized Field Mission, were among American and European hostages rescued from Congo rebels by Belgian paratroopers and armed forces of the Congo central government. At least 50 whites, including missionaries, were reported massacred by the rebels as rescuing forces were on their way. Before boarding the plane, Mr. Larson, 36, led his wife, daughter and a group of Americans, Britons and Greeks to safety. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (W-11D-64-NAB)
Creator:
Wide World Photos, Inc. (publisher)
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., Larson, Alfred Frederick., Unevangelized Fields Mission (Philadelphia, Pa.)--Missions--Congo (Democratic Republic)
Topics:
Missionaries--Congo (Democratic Republic)--Kinshasa., Massacres--Congo (Democratic Republic)--Kisangani.
Geographic subjects:
Kinshasa (Congo), Congo (Democratic Republic)--History--Civil War, 1960-1965.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:356689
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Text transcribed from caption: PC-31861 SLAIN MISSIONARY HONORED LEOPOLDVILLE -- A U.S. flag is draped around body of Dr. Paul Carlson, American medical missionary, slain by Congo rebels in a street massacre at Stanleyville that took at least 50 white lives. Standing at attention as the body arrived in Leopoldville is U.S. Ambassador G. McMurtrie Godley (in light suit). Next to him is Belgian Envoy Charles Kerchove (dark suit). Dr. Carlson was among some 100 men, women and children herded into the street by the rebels and shot at as Belgian paratroopers neared in an attempt to liberate the hostages. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (W-11D-64-NAB)
Creator:
Wide World Photos, Inc. (publisher)
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., Carlson, Paul--Death and burial., Evangelical Covenant Church of America--Missions--Congo (Democratic Republic), Godley, George McMurtrie., Kerchove, Charles.
Topics:
Missionaries--Congo (Democratic Republic), Capital punishment--Congo (Democratic Republic), Ambassadors--United States., Massacres--Congo (Democratic Republic)
Geographic subjects:
Kinshasa (Congo), Congo (Democratic Republic)--History--Civil War, 1960-1965.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:356688
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Text transcribed from caption: PC-31860 SLAIN PROTESTANT MISSIONARY AND HIS FAMILY LEOPOLDVILLE -- The Rev. Joseph W. Tucker of Portland, Ore., an Assemblies of God missionary, was reported to have been the first white hostage executed by fleeing Congo rebels at Paulis prior to its capture by Belgian paratroops. Mr. Tucker, a Congo missionary since 1939, is shown here with his wife and their three children who were rescued and evacuated to Leopoldville. The Tucker children are Johnny, an 18-year-old adopted son, Carol Lynne, 13, and Melvin Paul, 11. According to a witness in Paulis, Mr. Tucker was bound hand and foot and slowly beaten to death with bottles and heavy sticks. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (FRE-11D-64-NAB)
Creator:
Assemblies of God. (publisher)
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., Tucker, Joseph W.--Death and burial., Assemblies of God--Clergy., Assemblies of God--Missions--Congo (Democratic Republic), Tucker, Angeline Mae Pierce., Tucker, John Eli., Tucker, Melvin Paul., Tucker, Carol Lynne.
Topics:
Missionaries--Congo (Democratic Republic)--Isiro., Violent deaths--Congo (Democratic Republic)--Isiro., Clergy--Congo (Democratic Republic)--Isiro., Children of clergy., Spouses of clergy., Massacres--Congo (Democratic Republic)--Isiro.
Geographic subjects:
Isiro (Congo), Congo (Democratic Republic)--History--Civil War, 1960-1965.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:356687
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Text transcribed from caption: PC-31851 CONGO MEDICAL MISSIONARY REPORTED DEAD LEOPOLDVILLE, the Congo -- Refugees escaping from rebel-held territory in the Congo reported that Dr. Paul Carlson (right), shown here in a happier moment, had been put to death. The medical missionary, serving under the Evangelical Covenant Church of America, was captured when he refused to leave his hospital in the northern Congo. His wife (right) and children, Wayne, 9, and Lynette, 6, (in the foreground) reached safety. The doctor’s threatened execution, after being charged as a spy by rebels, was delayed for one week after the U.S. State Department and churchmen in America urged Kenya Prime Minister Jomo Kenyatta, as chairman of a Special Organization of African Unity Committee, to intervene in his behalf. The Carlson family is shown here with Philip Littleford of Baltimore, Md., a medical student in Africa on a fellowship, and Joann LeVahn of Minneapolis, Minn., a staff nurse at the mission hospital. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (FRE-Ph-11D-64-NBM)
Creator:
Smith, Kline & French Laboratories. (photographer)
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., Carlson, Paul, 1928-1964--Death and burial., Carlson, Paul, 1928-1964., Evangelical Covenant Church of America--Missions--Congo (Democratic Republic), Carlson, Lois Lindblom., Carlson, Wayne., Carlson, Lynette., LeVahn, Joann., Littleford, Philip.
Topics:
Missionaries--Congo (Democratic Republic)--Kinshasa., Missions, Medical--Congo (Democratic Republic)--Kinshasa.
Geographic subjects:
Kinshasa (Congo), Congo (Democratic Republic)--History--Civil War, 1960-1965.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:356683
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Text transcribed from caption: PC-31811 ART CRACKS ONE APARTHEID BARRIER JOHANNESBURG, So. Africa -- This 40-year-old African artist has been responsible for a major “breakthrough” in the Union of South Africa. Gladys Mgudlandlu was given a “one-woman show” which exhibited her art to the country which follows a policy of strict “apartheid” or racial segregation. A mixed throng of 200, whites and native Africans, attended the opening of her show, one which exhibited some 100 paintings of the country’s best known non-white woman artist. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (W-NY-11C-64-W)
Creator:
Wide World Photos, Inc. (publisher)
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., Mgudlandlu, Gladys (Gladys Nomfanekiso), 1917-1979.
Topics:
Artists--South Africa--Johannesburg., Women artists--South Africa--Johannesburg., Artists, Black--South Africa--Johannesburg., Painters--South Africa--Johannesburg., Women painters--South Africa--Johannesburg., Segregation--South Africa--Johannesburg., Apartheid--South Africa--Johannesburg.
Geographic subjects:
Johannesburg (South Africa)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:356678
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Text transcribed from caption: P-31897 RWANDA REFUGEES RESETTLED BY LUTHERAN AGENCY URAMBO, Tanzania -- The first of about 10,000 Watusi tribesmen and women forced out of Rwanda arrive at a new agricultural community being established for them in the Mwezi highlands of Tanzania by the Lutheran World Federation. The United National launched a massive airlift to resettle the refugees, who fled to the Northern Congo after being overwhelmed by the Bahutu tribe when warfare broke out after Rwanda and Burundi gained independence. The LWF is administering resettlement in Tanzania through its Tanganyika Christian Refugee Service in behalf of the World Council of Churches and Christian Service of Tanganyika. The grass shelter in the background is one of several used to house refugees until they complete construction of their own homes. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (NL-NY-12B-64-NBM)
Creator:
National Lutheran Council. (publisher)
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., Lutheran World Federation., Christian Council of Tanzania., World Council of Churches.
Topics:
Refugees--Rwanda., Church work with refugees--Tanzania--Urambo District., Tutsi (African people)--Tanzania--Urambo District., Civil war--Rwanda., Women refugees--Rwanda., Refugees--Housing--Tanzania--Urambo District.
Geographic subjects:
Urambo District (Tanzania)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:356647
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Text transcribed from caption: P-31830 MISSIONARY SENTENCED TO DEATH IN CONGO NEW YORK -- Dr. Paul Carlson, an American Protestant medical missionary, has been sentenced to death by the rebel Stanleyville government on charges of spying for the Congo central government. He is shown here during the summer of 1964 presenting corn and eggs to a native in a Congo village. At right is another American missionary, Dr. Philip Littleford of Baltimore. Dr. Carlson, 36, comes from Rolling Hills, Cal., and has been serving in the Congo under the Evangelical Covenant Church of America. Both the State Department and the Pentagon have denied that he has any military connection. Secretary of State Dean Rusk appealed to Premier Jomo Kenyatta of Kenya to do all he can to halt the threatened execution. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (W-11C-64-NAB)
Creator:
Wide World Photos, Inc. (publisher)
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., Carlson, Paul--Death and burial., Carlson, Paul., Littleford, Philip., Evangelical Covenant Church of America--Missions--Congo (Democratic Republic)
Topics:
Physicians--Congo (Democratic Republic), Missionaries--Congo (Democratic Republic), Capital punishment--Congo (Democratic Republic)
Geographic subjects:
Congo (Democratic Republic), Congo (Democratic Republic)--History--Civil War, 1960-1965.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:356639
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Text transcribed from caption: C-31955 CARDINAL CONFERS WITH ISLAMIC LEADERS CAIRO -- A happy occasion was the historic meeting of Franz Cardinal Koenig, Archbishop of Vienna, with top Islamic leaders in Cairo. Here, he is shown with Sheikh Ahmed Hassan el-Bakoury, director general of the Al Azhar University. On a five-day visit of Cairo as a guest of the government, the cardinal toured the university, the Islamic equivalent of the Vatican and also conferred with Grad Sheikh Hassan Mamoun, Islam’s supreme religious figure. The meeting marked the first time that a cardinal was received by the Grand Sheikh who is spiritual head of the more than 1,000-year-old university. Cardinal Koenig invited Sheikh Mamoun to visit Vienna give a series of lectures on Islam. He also proposed the possibility of establishing cultural exchanges between the Vatican and Al Azhar. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (ME-CAR-12D-64-NAB)
Creator:
Middle East Features Service (Cairo, Egypt) (publisher)
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., König, Franz, 1905-2004., Catholic Church--Bishops., Jāmiʻat al-Azhar., Jāmiʻat al-Azhar--Faculty., El-Bakoory, Ahmed Hassan., Catholic Church--Relations--Islam.
Topics:
Bishops--Egypt--Cairo., Islam--Relations--Catholic Church., Universities and colleges--Egypt--Cairo.
Geographic subjects:
Cairo (Egypt)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:356603
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Text transcribed from caption: C-31922 THE ‘THREE LITTLE WISE MEN’ NEW YORK -- These African children are commemorating the Feast of the Epiphany (Jan. 6) by re-enacting the visit of the Three Wise Men to the Infant Jesus. They are members of the Maryknoll mission parish in Tanzania, formerly Tanganyika. An African -- Gaspar -- was one of the Three Magi who went to Bethlehem to see the new-born Christ. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (M-12C-64-NAB)
Creator:
Catholic Foreign Mission Society of America. (publisher)
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., Catholic Foreign Mission Society of America., Catholic Church--Missions--Tanzania.
Topics:
Children--Tanzania., Epiphany--Tanzania., Magi., Children, Black--Tanzania., Missions--Tanzania.
Geographic subjects:
Tanzania.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:356594
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Text transcribed from caption on reverse: Dr. Paul Carlson in the Congo.
Creator:
Smith, Kline & French Laboratories. (publisher)
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., Carlson, Paul., Littleford, Philip., Evangelical Covenant Church of America--Missions--Congo (Democratic Republic)
Topics:
Physicians--Congo (Democratic Republic), Missionaries--Congo (Democratic Republic)
Geographic subjects:
Congo (Democratic Republic), Congo (Democratic Republic)--History--Civil War, 1960-1965.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:356517
Creator:
National Lutheran Council. (author)
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., Lutheran World Federation., Christian Council of Tanzania., World Council of Churches.
Topics:
Refugees--Rwanda., Church work with refugees--Tanzania--Urambo District., Tutsi (African people)--Tanzania--Urambo District., Civil war--Rwanda., Women refugees--Rwanda., Refugees--Housing--Tanzania--Urambo District.
Geographic subjects:
Urambo District (Tanzania)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:356444
Description:
Includes captions for other, unidentified photos.
Creator:
Middle East Features Service (Cairo, Egypt) (author)
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., König, Franz, 1905-2004., Catholic Church--Bishops., Jāmiʻat al-Azhar., Jāmiʻat al-Azhar--Faculty., El-Bakoory, Ahmed Hassan., Catholic Church--Relations--Islam.
Topics:
Bishops--Egypt--Cairo., Islam--Relations--Catholic Church., Universities and colleges--Egypt--Cairo.
Geographic subjects:
Cairo (Egypt)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:356439
Creator:
Wide World Photos, Inc. (author)
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., Mgudlandlu, Gladys (Gladys Nomfanekiso), 1917-1979.
Topics:
Artists--South Africa--Johannesburg., Women artists--South Africa--Johannesburg., Artists, Black--South Africa--Johannesburg., Painters--South Africa--Johannesburg., Women painters--South Africa--Johannesburg., Segregation--South Africa--Johannesburg., Apartheid--South Africa--Johannesburg.
Geographic subjects:
Johannesburg (South Africa)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:356377
Creator:
Wide World Photos, Inc. (author)
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., Carlson, Paul--Death and burial., Carlson, Paul., Littleford, Philip., Evangelical Covenant Church of America--Missions--Congo (Democratic Republic)
Topics:
Physicians--Congo (Democratic Republic), Missionaries--Congo (Democratic Republic), Capital punishment--Congo (Democratic Republic)
Geographic subjects:
Congo (Democratic Republic), Congo (Democratic Republic)--History--Civil War, 1960-1965.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:356371
Creator:
Smith, Kline & French Laboratories. (author)
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., Carlson, Paul, 1928-1964--Death and burial., Carlson, Paul, 1928-1964., Evangelical Covenant Church of America--Missions--Congo (Democratic Republic), Carlson, Lois Lindblom., Carlson, Wayne., Carlson, Lynette., LeVahn, Joann., Littleford, Philip.
Topics:
Missionaries--Congo (Democratic Republic)--Kinshasa., Missions, Medical--Congo (Democratic Republic)--Kinshasa.
Geographic subjects:
Kinshasa (Congo), Congo (Democratic Republic)--History--Civil War, 1960-1965.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:356290
Description:
Text transcribed from caption: TV-31976 Wema, Belgian Congo Dr. Howard Horner interviews some of the hundreds of lepers who sought admittance to the leper colony where he recently opened. Photo by Dr. Marjorie Horner.
Creator:
Horner, Marjorie Crittenden. (photographer)
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., Horner, Howard.
Topics:
Physicians--Congo (Democratic Republic)--Equateur (Province), Leprosy--Patients--Congo (Democratic Republic)--Equateur (Province), Missions to leprosy patients--Congo (Democratic Republic)--Equateur (Province), Church work with leprosy patients--Congo (Democratic Republic)--Equateur (Province)
Geographic subjects:
Equateur (Congo : Province)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:355960
Description:
Text transcribed from caption: P-32152 CHURCH AND SOCIETY CONFERENCE DISCUSSED ENUGU, Nigeria -- Plans for a World Conference on Church and Society, scheduled for July 1966, are discussed at Enugu, Nigeria, by churchmen attending a consultation on “Christian Response to the African Revolution” jointly sponsored by the World Council of Churches’ Division of Inter-Church Aid, Refugee and World Service and the All Africa Conference of Churches. The consultation preceded the WCC Central Committee meeting. From left to right are: Prof. Aluko of the economics department of the University of Nigeria; Dr. Paul Abrecht, executive secretary of the WCC’s Department on Church and Society; the Rev. Adeolu Adegbola, Methodist theologian and director of Immanuel Theological College at Ibadan, Nigeria; and Mr. Bola Ige, Ibadan lawyer who drafted a report on international affairs for the consultation. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (2-EN-1D-65-NBM)
Creator:
World Council of Churches. (publisher)
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., World Council of Churches., World Council of Churches--Congresses., Hotel Presidential Limited (Enugu, Nigeria), World Council of Churches. Division of Inter-Church Aid, Refugee, and World Service., All Africa Conference of Churches., World Conference on Church and Society (1966 : Geneva, Switzerland), Aluko, S. A., University of Nigeria, Enugu Campus--Faculty., Abrecht, Paul., Adegbọla, E. A. Ade., Immanuel College of Theology and Christian Education, Ibadan--Faculty., Methodist Church Nigeria--Clergy., Ige, Bola.
Topics:
Congresses and conventions--Nigeria--Enugu., Race relations--Religious aspects--Christianity., Race relations--Africa., Revolutions--Africa., National liberation movements--Africa., Revolutions--Religious aspects--Christianity., Congresses and conventions--Switzerland--Geneva., Church and social problems.
Geographic subjects:
Enugu (Nigeria)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:355945
Description:
Text transcribed from caption: PC-31978 8TH CENTURY CHRISTIAN CHURCH FOUND CAIRO -- A Dutch archeological expedition has discovered these and other remains of an 8th Century Christian church a few miles north of the famous temples of Abou-Simbel in the Egyptian Nubia. Top photo shows a fresco depicting Christ and four Apostles--Mark, John, Luke and Matthew. Below is a view of the nave of the church which was of mud brick and covered about 100 feet by 75 feet. The aperture (right) leads to the sanctuary and an altar. The door (left) is the entrance to a side room, believed to have been the sacristry. [sic] In front of the door as some stairs to the pulpit. Other frescoes included scenes of the Nativity, Crucifixion, and archangels. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (ME-12E-64-NAB)
Creator:
Middle East Features Service (Cairo, Egypt) (publisher)
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., Catholic Church--Buildings.
Topics:
Church architecture--History--To 1500., Archaeology and religion--Egypt--Aswān (Province), Church buildings--Egypt--Aswān (Province)
Geographic subjects:
Aswān (Egypt : Province), Aswān (Egypt : Province)--Buildings, structures, etc.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:355920

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