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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Title:
At Central Committee meeting.
Creator:
World Council of Churches. (author)
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., World Council of Churches. Central Committee--Congresses., World Council of Churches. Central Committee., Park, Sang., Webb, Pauline., Takeda, Kiyoko, 1917-2018., Visser’t Hooft, W. M. (Willem M.), Mead, Margaret, 1901-1978., Brück, Ulrich von., Scharf, Kurt., Albrecht, Paul G. E., Kaiser Wilhelm-Gedächtniskirche (Berlin, Germany)
Topics:
Congresses and conventions--Germany--Berlin., Ecumenical movement--Germany (West), Clergy--Germany--Berlin., Anthropologists--Germany--Berlin., Women anthropologists--Germany--Berlin.
Geographic subjects:
Berlin (Germany), Germany (West)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:360795
Title:
Ecumenical hospitality.
Creator:
World Council of Churches. (author)
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., World Council of Churches. Central Committee--Congresses., World Council of Churches. Central Committee., Potter, Philip., Rintelen, Friedrich M. (Friedrich Maria), 1899-1988., Catholic Church--Bishops., Kaiser Wilhelm-Gedächtniskirche (Berlin, Germany)
Topics:
Congresses and conventions--Germany--Berlin., Ecumenical movement--Germany (West), Clergy--Germany--Berlin., Bishops--Germany--Berlin.
Geographic subjects:
Berlin (Germany), Germany (West)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:360708
Title:
Bomb damage in Berlin's Dom.
Description:
Handwritten caption written on reverse side of photograph.
Subject names:
Berliner Dom., Evangelische Kirche in Deutschland--Buildings., Religious News Service--Archives.
Topics:
Church buildings--Germany--Berlin., Buildings--War damage--Germany--Berlin., World War, 1939-1945., Crypts--Germany--Berlin.
Geographic subjects:
Berlin (Germany)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:356832
Title:
Americans worship in Berlin.
Description:
Handwritten caption written on reverse side of photograph.
Subject names:
United States. Army., United States. Army--Chaplains., Religious News Service--Archives.
Topics:
Chaplains, Military--Germany--Berlin., Soldiers--Religious life--United States., Soldiers--Religious life--Germany--Berlin., Public worship--Germany--Berlin.
Geographic subjects:
Berlin (Germany), Zehlendorf (Berlin, Germany)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:356830
Title:
Berlin church leader.
Description:
Handwritten caption written on reverse side of photograph.
Subject names:
Böhm, Hans, 1899-1962., Evangelische Kirche in Deutschland. Kirchenkanzlei., Evangelische Kirche in Deutschland--Clergy., Hitler, Adolf, 1889-1945--Assassination attempts., Religious News Service--Archives.
Topics:
Clergy--Germany--Berlin., Anti-Nazi movement--Germany., World War, 1914-1918--Veterans--Germany., World War, 1939-1945--Prisoners and prisons, German., Operation Valkyrie, 1944.
Geographic subjects:
Berlin (Germany)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:356828
Title:
Bismarck surveys wreckage of Berlin's Dom.
Subject names:
Berliner Dom., Bismarck, Otto, Fürst von, 1815-1898--Statues., Evangelische Kirche in Deutschland--Buildings., Frederick III, German Emperor, 1831-1888--Tomb., Religious News Service--Archives.
Topics:
Church buildings--Germany--Berlin., Buildings--War damage--Germany--Berlin., World War, 1939-1945., Crypts--Germany--Berlin.
Geographic subjects:
Berlin (Germany)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:356826
Title:
Berlin church to be rebuilt.
Description:
Handwritten caption written on reverse side of photograph.
Subject names:
Kaiser Wilhelm-Gedächtniskirche (Berlin, Germany), Evangelische Kirche in Deutschland--Buildings., Religious News Service--Archives.
Topics:
Church buildings--Germany--Berlin., Buildings--War damage--Germany--Berlin., Church buildings--Reconstruction--Germany--Berlin., World War, 1939-1945.
Geographic subjects:
Berlin (Germany)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:356822
Title:
Niemoeller parsonage.
Description:
Handwritten caption written on reverse side of photograph.
Subject names:
Niemöller, Martin, 1892-1984., Religious News Service--Archives.
Topics:
Buildings--War damage--Germany--Berlin., World War, 1939-1945., Church buildings--Germany--Berlin., Parsonages--Germany--Berlin.
Geographic subjects:
Dahlem (Berlin, Germany)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:356818
Title:
Deck the wall...
Creator:
United Press International. (author)
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives.
Topics:
Berlin Wall, Berlin, Germany, 1961-1989., Communism and Christianity--Germany--Berlin., Christmas--Germany--Berlin., Christmas trees--Germany--Berlin.
Geographic subjects:
Berlin (Germany)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:352643
Title:
King inspects Wall.
Description:
Alternate caption.
Creator:
United Press International. (author)
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968.
Topics:
African American clergy--Germany--Berlin., African American civil rights workers--Germany--Berlin., African Americans--Relations with Germans., Communism and Christianity--Germany--Berlin.
Geographic subjects:
Berlin (Germany), United States--Foreign relations--Germany.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:349421
Title:
Martin Luther King at Berlin Wall.
Description:
Alternate caption.
Creator:
United Press International. (author)
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968.
Topics:
African American clergy--Germany--Berlin., African American civil rights workers--Germany--Berlin., African Americans--Relations with Germans., Communism and Christianity--Germany--Berlin.
Geographic subjects:
Berlin (Germany), United States--Foreign relations--Germany.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:349324

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