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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Christian teachers on Okinawa.
Description:
Text transcribed from caption: #44 CHRISTIAN TEACHERS ON OKINAWA A group of high school teachers, all Christians who teach in the schools established at Shimmabuke, Okinawa [sic. Shimabuku, Okinawa], where Shosei Kina acts as the superintendent. He is one of the original converts to Christianity as a result of a brief visit to the island by a visiting Methodist missionary enroute to Japan. Before his departure, the missionary presented to Shosei a Bible in the Japanese language. This Bible is still being used by him in spreading the Gospel to his followers. Credit Line Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO
Creator:
Hall, Clarence W. (Clarence Wilbur), 1902-1985. (photographer)
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., Kina, Shosei.
Topics:
Women teachers--Japan--Okinawa-ken., Teachers--Japan--Okinawa-ken., Christian educators--Japan--Okinawa-ken.
Geographic subjects:
Okinawa-ken (Japan)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:357572
Title:
Christian Community of Okinawa.
Description:
Text transcribed from caption:   #43  CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY OF OKINAWA Chaplain Roy N. Hillyer, senior chaplain of the Tenth Army on Okinawa (seated at center of table) with leaders of the Christian community at Shimmabuke, Okinawa [sic. Shimabuku, Okinawa]. The two men at the right of the table were originally converted by a Methodist missionary who spent a short time on the island, thirty years ago, while enroute to Japan. They are Mojon and Shosei Kina, brothers. Seated at the left is Corporal Tom Higa, a native of Shimmabuke [sic. Shimabuku], who had gone to school in Honolulu, and there enlisted in the U.S. Army. Shosei is superintendent of the school system. Both he and his brother have been preaching the Gospel from the Bible in the Japanese language left with them by the missionary, thirty years ago. Credit Line Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO
Creator:
Hall, Clarence W. (Clarence Wilbur), 1902-1985. (photographer)
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., Hillyer, Roy N., United States. Army. Armored Division, 10th., Kina, Mojon., Kina, Shosei., Higa, Tarō, 1916-1985.
Topics:
Methodist converts--Japan--Okinawa-ken., School superintendents--Japan--Okinawa-ken., Military chaplains--Japan--Okinawa-ken., Christian leadership--Japan--Okinawa-ken., Christian educators--Japan--Okinawa-ken., World War, 1939-1945--Chaplains.
Geographic subjects:
Okinawa-ken (Japan)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:357566
Title:
The pastor entertains an Okinawa family.
Description:
Text transcribed from caption: #426 THE PASTOR ENTERTAINS AN OKINAWA FAMILY Navy Chaplain William Larsen, former pastor of the Bethany Danish Lutheran Church of Roxbury, Mass., visits with Okinawa natives. Chaplain Larsen, whose home is in Boston, has been serving with a Marine regiment on Okinawa, since the beginning of the campaign. Credit Line Should Read: U.S. Marine Corps Photo from RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., United States. Marine Corps., William, Larsen., Bethany Danish Lutheran Church (Roxbury, Boston, Mass.), American Lutheran Church (1930-1960)--Clergy.
Topics:
World War, 1939-1945--Chaplains., Military chaplains--Japan--Okinawa-ken., Christians--Japan--Okinawa-ken.
Geographic subjects:
Okinawa-ken (Japan)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:357562
Title:
Captions for two pictures to Religious News Service.
Description:
Alternate caption.
Creator:
Hall, Clarence W. (Clarence Wilbur), 1902-1985. (author)
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., Hillyer, Roy N., United States. Army. Armored Division, 10th., Kina, Mojon., Kina, Shosei., Higa, Tarō, 1916-1985.
Topics:
Methodist converts--Japan--Okinawa-ken., School superintendents--Japan--Okinawa-ken., Military chaplains--Japan--Okinawa-ken., Christian leadership--Japan--Okinawa-ken., Christian educators--Japan--Okinawa-ken., World War, 1939-1945--Chaplains.
Geographic subjects:
Okinawa-ken (Japan)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:357524
Title:
Christian Community of Okinawa.
Description:
Alternate caption.
Creator:
Hall, Clarence W. (Clarence Wilbur), 1902-1985. (author)
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., Hillyer, Roy N., United States. Army. Armored Division, 10th., Kina, Mojon., Kina, Shosei., Higa, Tarō, 1916-1985.
Topics:
Methodist converts--Japan--Okinawa-ken., School superintendents--Japan--Okinawa-ken., Military chaplains--Japan--Okinawa-ken., Christian leadership--Japan--Okinawa-ken., Christian educators--Japan--Okinawa-ken., World War, 1939-1945--Chaplains.
Geographic subjects:
Okinawa-ken (Japan)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:357502

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