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Church involvement in social and political issues and activism, including civil rights, protests, and war work. Also, social and political reformers connected to the church. See the following related collections: Civil rights, protests, and social reformers; Wars. Featured image: Religious with Rosa Parks, 1963.

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Title:
Red China Celebration in Shanghai.
Description:
Different aspects of parade.
Creator:
LaGamma, Frank. (photographer)
Subject names:
Presbyterian Church in the U.S. Board of World Missions--Archives.
Topics:
Presbyterian Church--Missions--China--Shanghai., Communism--China--Shanghai., Parades--China--Shanghai.
Geographic subjects:
Shanghai (China)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:161194
Title:
American nun arrives in Hong Kong.
Description:
Dressed in brown Carmelite robe and cloth Chinese shoes, both feet were bandaged. She was carried from her stateroom on back of Father Smith. She weighed less than 100 pounds. She tried to cover her face with handkerchiefs as photographers flashed away.
Creator:
De Santerre, Daniele. (photographer)
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., Daughters of Charity of Canossa., Carmelite Nuns.
Topics:
Nuns--China., Women missionaries--China., Communism--China., Communism and Christianity--Catholic Church.
Geographic subjects:
Hong Kong., China.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:149859
Title:
Reds free emancipated Italian Bishop.
Description:
Bishop Alfonso Maria Corrado Ferroni, O.F.M. is released after imprisonment in Communist China.
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., Franciscans., Catholic Church--Bishops--China--Hubei Sheng., Ferroni, Alfonso Maria Corrado, 1892-1966.
Topics:
Communism and Christianity--Catholic Church., Communism--China., Political prisoners--China., Persecution--China.
Geographic subjects:
Hong Kong., China.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:148469
Title:
American Dominicans leave China.
Description:
Crossing border are three priests (left to right) Italian Father Ambrose Poletti, Hong Kong priest meets Hyde, Joyce, and Gordon. With them on far right is Police Superintendent A. L. Gordon who has charge of the British side of border.
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., Catholic Church--Clergy--Hong Kong., Poletti, Ambrose., Hyde, Joseph E., Joyce, James G., Gordon, Frederick A.
Topics:
Communism and Christianity--Catholic Church., Communism--China., Political prisoners--China., Persecution--China., Dominican Americans--Hong Kong.
Geographic subjects:
Hong Kong., China.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:148400
Title:
Chinese Reds free women missionaries.
Description:
Dorothy May Middleton and Sarah Lee Perkins read letters and cables from friends after their release from Communist China.
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of Foreign Missions., American Mission to Lepers., Middleton, Dorothy May., Perkins, Sarah Lee.
Topics:
Missionaries--China., Women missionaries--China., Communism--China., Political prisoners--China., Women political prisoners--China., Persecution--China.
Geographic subjects:
Hong Kong., China.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:148328
Title:
Communist prison life in China, after 1953.
Description:
A radio interview with Dr. John David Hayes, former prisoner of war, recorded between 1953-1957 at the National Presbyterian Church, Washington, D.C. Dr. Hayes was a Presbyterian minister and missionary in China. He was imprisoned, 1951-1952.
Creator:
Hayes, John David, 1888-1957. (interviewee)
Subject names:
National Presbyterian Church (Washington, D.C.)
Topics:
Communism--China., Prisoners of war--United States., Prisoners of war--China., Political prisoners--China., Communism and Christianity--China.
Geographic subjects:
China.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:116515

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