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Title:Description:Text transcribed from caption: P-29757 SWISS HOLIDAY FOR ORPHANS GENEVA -- A holiday in Switzerland for Algerian orphans whose lives were blighted by bitter civil strife in their native land. Sixty Moslem children -- aged 6 to 14 -- were given a month’s holiday by Protestant churches of the world. U.S. denominations participated through Church World Service, overseas aid agency of the National Council of Churches. At top left, the children are all smiles on their arrival at Geneva’s airport. At top right, they find Swiss sunshine and Swiss Protestants a happy combination in making them feel at home abroad. The children stayed at a refurbished hotel that had been abandoned; a congregation at Corseaux, near Lake Leman, suggested the holiday and rehabilitated the hotel. HEKS, Swiss Protestant inter-church agency, provided the furnishings. At lower left, they enjoy a break for lunch and a briefing by their director. The children enjoyed rides on the electric train to Vevey and a series of automobile excursions. At lower right, an Algerian orphan, touched by the wonder of it all, contemplates a new world opening up before his eyes on the Swiss holiday. His vacation, and that of the others, was made possible through the cooperation of the Christian Committee for Service in Algeria, Church World Service, the World Council of Churches, and other agencies. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (JJM-NY-8D-63-W)URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:358295
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Description:Text transcribed from caption: P-29749 BUDDHISTS HONOR MONK WHO TOOK LIFE IN CRISIS HUE, South Vietnam -- Buddhist monks pray at an altar in Hue, South Vietnam, in a service commemorating a novice priest who burned himself to death to protest alleged anti-Buddhist policies of the South Vietnamese government. Five Buddhist clergy took their lives to point up the continuing tension between the Buddhists and the government of President Ngo Dinh Diem, a Roman Catholic. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (U-NY-8D-63-W)URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:358294
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Description:Text transcribed from caption: P-29748 NCC CHORUS REHEARSES FOR WASHINGTON MARCH NEW YORK -- “Freedom Songs,” which have become increasingly familiar across the nation with the accelerating pace of demonstrations for racial justice, were to have a place in the massive civil rights march on Washington, D.C., on Aug. 28. One musical group scheduled to take part in the demonstration was comprised of volunteers from the National Council of Churches staff in New York City. The chorus shown rehearsing above is lead [sic] by Merrill [Merritt] Hedgeman well-known concert artist. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (1-NY-8D-63-NBM)URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:358293
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Description:Text transcribed from caption: P-29745 BILLY GRAHAM AT LOS ANGELES CRUSADE LOS ANGELES, Cal. -- Evangelist Billy Graham (on platform center) addresses some 38,700 persons in Los Angeles’ Memorial Coliseum as he opens a three-week Southern California Crusade. On the first night the famed evangelist drew 1,514 “decisions for Christ.” Attendance on the second rally was reported at 31,254, with 1,154 decisions. In his first sermons, Dr. Graham deplored the “trend to take God and moral law out of our schools,” and warned that today’s society was entering the “age of the shrug” concerning vital issues, with most people seeking only “escapism.” The Baptist minister’s crusade was being held not far from the spot where he first gained repute as an evangelist at a Los Angeles tent crusade 14 years ago. Since then he has preached to some 30 million people on five continents. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (RNS-8D-63-NAB)URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:358292
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Description:Text transcribed from caption: P-29710 BRONZE FIGURES SAVED IN TIBET GO TO BUDDHIST MONASTERIES NEW YORK -- Four small ancient bronze figures retrieved by fleeing refugees from temples in Communist-overrun Tibet have been earmarked for safekeeping in four Kalmuk Buddhist temples in New Jersey and Philadelphia. The sacred objects, believed to be from two to three hundred years old, were presented in New York by Church World Service, Protestant overseas aid agency, to Thutben J. Norbu, brother of the Dalai Lama. Mr. Norbu (right), who was, in turn, to give the figures (shown below) to the monasteries, received them from James MacCracken, associate executive director of CWS. The agency obtained the figures from a group of private American citizens who bought them to aid Tibetan refugee relief. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (CWS-NY-8B-63-NBM)URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:358290
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Description:Text transcribed from caption: P-29690 AID FOR YUGOSLAV QUAKE VICTIMS NEW YORK -- Blankets, tents and other relief goods desperately needed by thousands of earthquake victims in Skoplje, Yugoslavia, were airlifted from New York to the disaster area by Church World Service, material aid agency for the National Council of Churches. Part of the initial shipment is checked by Dr. Reginald Helfferich, right, CWS vice chairman, and Wilson O. Radway, associate director of material services for the agency. Fifteen thousand pounds of goods -- including 1,500 blankets, 52 tents, one million water purification tablets, and drugs -- were sent from New York and other relief supplies were being diverted to Yugoslavia from CWS European branches. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (CWS-NY-8A-63-NBM)URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:358289
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Title:Description:Text transcribed from caption: P-29689 CHURCH PICKETED IN HOUSTON HOUSTON, Tex. -- An “all-out” picketing campaign against the 3,600-member all-white First Baptist church in Houston, Texas, was launched by the Congress for Racial Equality. The pastor of the church is Dr. K. Owen White, president of the 10-million-member Southern Baptist Convention. Though Negroes have been admitted to worship services, pickets protested the denial of six membership applications. IN a statement issued after the first application was refused, Dr. White said that in view of existing racial tensions it was believed wise to continue present membership policies. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (MS-Hou-8A-63-NBM)URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:358288
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Description:Text transcribed from caption: P-29682 YOUTHS DISCUSS ECUMENICAL MOVEMENT LAFAYETTE, Ind. -- Some 1,530 delegates at the First North American Reformed and Presbyterian Youth Assembly spent much of their time discussing the role of church youth in the ecumenical movement. Held at the Perdue University campus in Lafayette, Ind., the assembly saw the high school students and young adults gather in “core groups” of from 12 to 15 members each to consider the question: “What is God calling us to be and do as youth of the Reformed Churches within the ecumenical movement.” Delegates, who represented eight denominations from this country and Canada, included youths from Presbyterian bodies abroad and students studying in the U.S. under the International Christian Youth Exchange program. Four of the exchange students are shown between sessions on the Perdue campus. Left to right: Astrid Rehrmann of Dillenburg, West Germany; Lars Berggrund of Uppsala, Sweden; Liisa Hollmen of Helsinki, Finland; and Joncker Biandudi, Jr., of Leopoldville, the Congo. Also present at the assembly as observers were three Roman Catholic students at Purdue. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (RNS-7E-63-NAB)URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:358287
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Title:Description:Text transcribed from caption: P-29681 AT NCC ECUMENICAL INSTITUTE BLACK MOUNTAIN, N.C. -- A migrant ministry exhibit is viewed by four participants of the National Council of Churches; eight annual Ecumenical Institute at Black Mountain, N.C., attended by some 100 leaders of 17 church bodies. Left to right: Mrs. Ann Warner of Memphis, Tenn., secretary of the Southern Field Office, NCC’s migrant ministry; Mrs. A. Beatrice Williams of Jacksonville, Fla., editor, Women’s Missionary magazine, African Methodist Episcopal Church; Prof. Ralph L. Williamson of Atlanta, Ga., instructor in town and country work, Interdenominational Theological Seminary; and Dr. Henry C. McCanna of New York, executive director, NCC’s Department of Town and Country Churches. Sponsored by the NCC’s Southern Office, the interdenominational and interracial institute was designed to promote understanding and cooperation among southern Christians. Dr. McCanna was one of the principal speakers. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (N-NY-7E-63-NAB)URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:358286
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Description:Text transcribed from caption: P-29679 CROWN OF BARBED WIRE THORNS UNDERLINES KIRCHENTAG THEME DORTMUND, Germany -- “To Live With Conflicts,” the theme of the 11th German Evangelical Church Day (Kirchentag) Congress at Dortmund, Germany, was dramatically underlined in a huge poster holding a crown of thorns, constructed of barbed wire. The absence of East German Protestants at the four-day rally, for the first time in its history, was the occasion for prayers for spiritual unity among Christians and the eventual reunification of the divided nation. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (Voss-Ber.-7E-NBM)URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:358285
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Description:Text transcribed from caption: P-29678 GIDEONS HOLD 64TH ANNUAL CONVENTIONS DENVER, Colo. -- A display of Bibles arranged in the form of a cross greeted delegates to the 64th annual convention of the Gideons at Denver, Colo. Jacob Stam of Paterson, N.J., international president of the organization, views the display. Addressing the 1,300 members and auxiliary members at the convention, the president declared that the recent Supreme Court ruling against devotions in public schools will not stop the Gideons from continuing distribution of Bibles to school children. Since 1899, the Gideons have distributed 53.9 million Bibles and Testaments around the World. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (WF-Dv-7E-63-NBM)URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:358284
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Description:Text transcribed from caption: EPO-29831 OPENING OF ORTHODOX FESTIVAL PITTSBURGH -- Part of the great crowd of 10,000 is shown as it participated in a service at the first National Eastern Orthodox Religious Cultural Festival ever held in America. Archbishop Iakovos, primate of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of North and South America, headed a procession of some 100 acolytes and 150 Orthodox bishops, priests and seminarians into Pittsburgh’s Civic Arena to open the festival. Youth groups from seven Orthodox Churches in the U.S. participated. Featured was a 1,000-voice choir. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (CET-PTS-9A-63-W)URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:358283
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Title:Description:Text transcribed from caption: C-29939 PAPAL TRIBUTE VIA TELSTAR WASHINGTON, D.C. -- A giant screen at Georgetown University bears the image of Pope Paul VI as he congratulates the school on the start of its 175th anniversary year. From his private library in the Vatican, the pontiff read a message in which he described the Jesuit institution as the alma mater of Catholic colleges in the U.S. The program was televised via the Telstar communications satellite on the Pope’s 66th birthday. Georgetown was founded in 1789, the same year in which the U.S. Constitution was adopted. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (W-WASH-9D-63-RB)URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:358282
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Title:Description:Text transcribed from caption: C-29938 FIRST ECUMENICAL COUNCIL VATICAN CITY -- Resumption of the Second Vatican Council recalls the first of the previous 20 Ecumenical Councils held in the history of the Church. That first Council was held at Nicaea in the year 325. Summoned by Pope Sylvester I and lasting two months and 12 days, it condemned Arianism which denied the divinity of Christ; formulated the Nicene Creed; and fixed a formula for dating Easter observances. Vatican II, called by the late Pope John XXIII, is aimed at Church renewal and reform in the 20th century. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (RNS-9D-63-RB)URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:358281
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Description:Text transcribed from caption: C-29915 POPE PROPOSES ROMAN CURIA REFORMS VATICAN CITY -- Pope Paul VI gestures as he receives prelates and officials of the Roman Curia. In addressing them he proposed that the Church’s central administrative body be modernized for today’s age. Major reforms asked by the Pope included greater authority to diocesan bishops, who now must refer many matters to Rome; collaboration of bishops with the Pope in the “study and responsibility” of Church government; internationalization of Curia members, now predominantly Italian; and education of Curia personnel along more “ecumenical” lines. Coming a week before the opening of the Second Vatican Council’s second session, the Pope’s address to the Curia gave added significance to the first item on the Council’s agenda. This was entitled “Of the Church” and dealt mainly with relations between bishops and the Church in modern times. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (W-9D-63-NAB)URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:358280
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Title:Description:Text transcribed from caption: C-29914 CHRIST ON THE WATERS PORT ARTHUR, Tex. -- A statue of Christ in a Port Arthur, Tex., cemetery stands above flood waters following Hurricane Cindy. The floods brought on by rains spawned by the hurricane, inundated low-lying communities along the Texas coastal area and drove families from their homes. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (U-NY-9D-63-RB)URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:358279
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Description:Text transcribed from caption: C-29913 PONTIFF MEETS PEACE PILGRIMS VATICAN CITY -- Pope Paul VI talks with two Japanese Buddhist leaders at a special audience in the Vatican Apostolic Palace. The visitors were among a party of 18 Japanese religious leaders, including Christians, Buddhists and Shintoists, who are making a world peace pilgrimage in appeal for banning of nuclear weapons. From Rome, the Japanese were scheduled to go to Geneva, Paris, Moscow, London, Berlin, Washington and other cities. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (W-LON-9D-63-RB)URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:358278
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Title:Description:Text transcribed from caption: C-29911 AMERICANS GREET THE PONTIFF VATICAN CITY -- A gift for Pope Paul VI from Slovak Catholics of the United States. With the pontiff is Bishop Andrew G. Grutka of Gary, Ind. (far right) who led 250 Americans to the dedication of SS. Cyril and Methodius Institute in Rome. Making the presentation is Msgr. Stefan Nahalka, head of the Institute, as Paul C. Kazimer, supreme treasurer of the Slovak Catholic Federation of America, looks on at left. Slovak parishes in the U.S. contributed more than $400,000 to build the institute named for the Apostles to the Slavs. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (JS-PAS-9C-63-W)URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:358277
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Description:Text transcribed from caption: C-29910 U.S. CATHOLIC REPORTER VISITS CUBA HAVANA, Cuba -- The Church of Our Lady of Mount Carmel in Havana, Cuba. A Catholic reporter who took this picture said the Church “was just tolerated” by the Communist regime. He found crowded churches in the city and said “if Havana represents conditions throughout the country the Catholic Church is not hindered in any way.” Arthur Jones, a reporter for the Catholic Star Herald of the Camden (N.J.) diocese, spent 9 days in Cuba on assignment of his paper. Pro-government priests, he said, claimed the Church had “withdrawn” almost immediately after the Castro regime took over. Mr. Jones said another priest reported negotiations could be reopened to allow more clergy on the island and that some priests were arriving from Belgium. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (AJ-CAM-9C-63-W)URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:358276
