Description:
NCC President in War Zone: Bishop Reuben H. Mueller, president of the
National Council of Churches, conducts services for officers and men of the
USS Krishna, Naval supply ship off the coast of South Vietnam. Bishop Mueller
of Indianapolis, head of the Evangelical United Brethren Church, spent a week
in the South Vietnam war zone during the Easter season. He was accompanied on
the annual visit to servicemen overseas -- for the first time this year to a
war area-- by Dr. Fred S. Buschmeyer of New York, secretary of the United
Church of Christ, and Dr. J. Oscar Lee, secretary for program of the NCC's
Division of Christian Life and Mission.
Creator:
Religious News Service. (creator)
Subject names:
National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America., Mueller, Reuben H., Mueller, Reuben Herbert, 1897-1982., Evangelical United Brethren Church., Buschmeyer, Fred S., Lee, J. Oscar., United Church of Christ.
Topics:
Vietnam War, 1961-1975--War work--Churches.
Geographic subjects:
Vietnam.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:4950