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Title:Description:Text transcribed from caption: PC-46599 ROCKETS BLAST HER HOME BIEN HOA, So. Vietnam -- A South Vietnamese woman sifts wreckage for belongings after her home was blasted by a Russian-built rocket. Vietcong fired 19 missiles at the nearby Bien Hoa air bae; some fell short, killing two civilians wounding others, and wrecking homes. Bien Hoa is 15 miles northeast of Saigon. Meanwhile, North Vietnamese forces overran Phuoc Binh, 75 miles north of the capital, following a six-day siege. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (1-NY-1B-75-W)URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:362320
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Title:Description:Text transcribed from caption: PC-46598 FOOD FOR THE OCCUPATION GRESHAM, Wis. -- Indian mediators Artley Skenandore, left and Neil Hawpetoss display to newsmen food destined for militant Indians who occupied the Alexian Brothers Novitiate near Gresham, Wis. The food, including sandwiches and soup, was the first allowed to be sent to the Indians since they took over the group of buildings on New Year’s Day. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (1-NY-1B-75-W)URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:362319
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Description:Text transcribed from caption: PC-46597 LEADERS OF A.I.M. DISCUSS TAKEOVER SHAWANO, Wis. -- National board members of the American Indian Movement (AIM) leave Shawano County Sheriff’s office after discussing the Indian takeover of a group of buildings owned by the Alexian Brothers near Gresham, Wis. Left to right, they are Herb Powless, Dennis Banks and Russell Means. They said they hoped to help negotiate with Indians holding the Catholic order’s novitiate property. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (1-1B-75-W)URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:362318
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Description:Text transcribed from caption: PC-46592 ALLENDE AIDES IN PRISON CAMP SANTIAGO, Chile. -- Chilean Communist Party leader Luis Corvalan, center, and other former aides of overthrown Marxist President Salvador Allende, line up for lunch at a military prison camp. Chile’s current government released the picture to show the condition of the prisoners arrested after the coup of Sept. 13, 1973. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (2-NY-1B-75-W)URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:362317
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Title:Description:Text transcribed from caption: PC-46591 FILIPINO INSURGENTS MINDANAO, The Philippines -- Guerrilla members of the Bangsa Moro Army stand together during a patrol on Mindanao in the Philippines. The Muslim rebellion on the nation’s southern island is led by an elite corps of articulate, well-educated young men, some of them trained in Libya, but most of the fighters are ill-educated sons of farmers and fishermen. Major parts of the southern Philippine island of Mindanao and the nearby Sulu Islands archipelago -- where almost all of the country’s 2.5 million Muslims live -- have been wracked by large-scale battle between insurgents and government forces ever since martial law as proclaimed in September, 1972. The insurrection, which extends back some five years, is an outgrowth of grievances against Christian migrants from the north who have been nibbling away at Muslim holdings in the area, and alleged anti-Muslim “discrimination” by the Christian-dominated government in Manila. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (B-PHI-1B-75-DS)URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:362316
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Description:Text transcribed from caption: PC-46590 IN SUPPORT OF INDIAN OCCUPIERS KESHENA, Wis. -- An Indian wrapped in an American flag dances in front of a police roadblock set up at the entrance to a religious estate near Keshena, Wis., being occupied by a group of Indians calling themselves Menominee Warrior Society. Demonstrators marched to the roadblock to protest the ring of police around the estate, owned by the Alexian Brothers, a Chicago-based Roman Catholic order. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (B-WIS-1B-75-DS)URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:362315
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Description:Text transcribed from caption: PC-46589 CHURCH HOSPITALS OFFER TELEPHONE SERVICE MINNEAPOLIS -- Medical staffs of three church-sponsored hospitals in Minneapolis are providing a free telephone health information service call Tel-Med. By dialing 721-7575, resident of the Minneapolis-St. Paul area are able to hear any of more than 190 tape-recorded health messages. A brochure providing an index of Tel-Med messages has been published in local newspapers and is available on request. A caller scans the index, which is categorized under various subheadings such as cancer, chemical dependency, child care, etc., dials the Tel-Med number and asked the librarian to let him hear a certain tape. Here, a volunteer serving at Lutheran Deaconess Hospital, location of the tape library, handles a message request at her special tape console. Storage racks flanking the console hold more than 190 tape cartridges, each one representing a three-to-five minute health-related message. The volunteer selects a tape from a storage rack, inserts it in a special communications console, and the message automatically begins. Up to 10 messages can be handled simultaneously. The service is sponsored by the staffs of Fairview, Fairview-Southdale and Lutheran Deaconess Hospitals, all affiliated with the American Lutheran Church. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (WLT-MIN-1B-75-DS)URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:362314
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Title:Description:Text transcribed from caption: PC-46588 INDIANS SEIZE A MONASTERY KESHENA, Wis. -- Shawano County Sheriff’s deputys [sic] tell Neil Hawpetoss (center) that he may not enter a closed monastery near Keshena, Wis., that has been seized by a group of Indians calling themselves the Menominee Warrior Society, who have vowed to hold it until the religious order that owns it turns it over to them. County, state and federal authorities sealed off the 37-acre Alexian Brothers Novitiate, the property of a Roman Catholic order, and allowed only a negotiating team to enter. Mr. Hawpetoss, who was attempting to take food to the Indians when he was stopped, said that about 400 Indians were involved in the takeover. But authorities estimated the number at 40 or 50. The Indian contended that the estate had been abandoned by the Alexian Brothers and was needed by the Indians for group housing. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (A-WIS-1A-75-DS)URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:362313
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Description:Text transcribed from caption: PC-46583 ULSTER CHURCH LEADERS MEET WITH PRIME MINISTER LONDON -- British Prime Minister Harold Wilson meets in London with the top church leaders of Ulster to discuss “the need to build upon the cessation of violence and the great desire of all communities for peace” in Northern Ireland. At the meeting are, from left: Stanley Orme, Minister of State for Northern Ireland; Cardinal William Conway, Roman Catholic Primate of All Ireland; Mr. Wilson; Mervyn Rees, Secretary of State for Northern Ireland; and Archbishop George Simms, Anglican Primate of Ireland. Also attending the conference were the Rt. Rev. Temple Lundi, moderation of the Presbyterian General Assembly, and the Rev. Harold Sloan, secretary of the Northern Ireland Methodist Church. The meeting coincided with the announcement in Dublin by Irish Republican Army Provisionals that they were extending for two weeks -- until Jan. 16 -- the Christmas truce which was initiated after talks with the churchmen. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (A-LON-1A-75-DS)URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:362312
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Description:Text transcribed from caption: PC-46579 TEXTBOOK FOE ASKS CONGRESS PROBE OF HEW CHARLESTON, W. Va. -- One of the leading opponents of the controversial English textbooks used in Charleston public schools has called for a Congressional investigation of the U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare. Mrs. Alice Moore, a member of the Kanawha County School Board and a consistent critic of the texts, declared that “the greatest potential threat to our nation lies within the public education system (and) HEW funds are used to develop, promote and force on our schools these value-changing programs.” Mrs. Moore said she had wired U.S. Education Commissioner Terrel H. Bell, suggesting an “immediate cutoff of all federal funds to teacher training and promotional program for new educational concepts until guidelines can be established to protect citizens’ rights.” She charged that “for years, HEW has been pouring funds into promotional programs that undermine basic American traditions and insult values of most parents.” Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (GA-WVA-12D-74-DS)URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:362311
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Title:Description:Text transcribed from caption: PC-46576 A CUP OF BLESSING (First Of Three Photos) NEW HAVEN, Conn. -- Newhallville is a low and middle income section of New Haven which is populated by 15,000, 90 per cent of whom are black. After a 1968 riot, leaders of local black churches decided the community must have a minister to meet its total needs. As a result, CUP was born. The Christian Union Program has gained national attention and support because of its success in ministering to the community. Local churches and religious organizations, several denominations, and Yale Divinity School are all participating. CUP began in one storefront building. Now it has a row of storefronts on a block in Newhallville. One door opens to a daycare center. Another leads to a clothing and food store. A third opens to a book store where both new and used books can be purchased at reasonable prices. A main door is the area for work training and counseling. Other ministries are performed outside the center. They include ministries in a nearby prison, a home for the aged, youth programs and a camp outside town, assisting people to buy groceries, etc. (SEE ALSO RNS PHOTOS PC-46577 & 78) Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO by Don Rutledge (DR-GA-12D-74-DS)URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:362310
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Description:Text transcribed from caption: PC-46556 ROCKEFELLER TAKES OATH AS VICE PRESIDENT WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Holding a family Bible in his left hand, Nelson Rockefeller is sworn in as the 41st Vice President of the United States (top photo). Chief Justice Warren Burger administers the oath in the Senate chamber on the night of Dec. 19. Two hours earlier, the House of Representative, on a vote of 287 to 128, confirmed the former New York governor as the nation’s second highest official. The Senate had confirmed Mr. Rockefeller a week before. Below, President Gerald Ford (left) and Mr. Rockefeller wave as they leave the White House en route to the Capitol for the swearing-in ceremony. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (A-WAS-12C-74-DS)URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:362309
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Title:Description:Text transcribed from caption: PC-46553 ‘SMILING’ CHURCH WILLINGBORO, N.J. -- Those “smile faces” which have popped up everywhere appear on a wall of the St. Paul United Methodist Church in Willingboro, N.J., at night. The lighting on circled, indented crosses is responsible for the unique scene. In daylight the smiles disappear. The church was built in 1957, predating the “smile button” by about 12 years. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO by Charles Germain (CG-NJ-12C-74-DS)URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:362308
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Description:Text transcribed from caption: PC-46539 VIOLENCE FLARES AGAIN IN BOSTON BOSTON -- Riot equipped Boston police wrestle a demonstrator to the ground outside South Boston High School after racial violence flared again at the school when a white youth was allegedly stabbed in the stomach by a black teenager. Two schools were closed as a result of the violence at court-ordered desegregated Boston schools. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (B-BOS-12B-74-DS)URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:362307
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Description:Text transcribed from caption: PC-46534 WORLD FOOD CRISIS IS REVIVING FASTING A faster in the “Food Forfeit for Famine” program at St. John University, Collegeville, Minn., holds his Wednesday night fare, soup and bread. Once a week, students give up a full meal with all the trimmings and dessert, and dine, instead, on a simpler, cheaper meal. The world food crisis is reviving one of the most ancient and universal religious practices: fasting. In congregations, conferences of bishops and on college campuses, strong, new appeals urge affluent Americans to skip meals and observe fast days. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO by Vern Bartos (VB-SCM-12B-74-DS)URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:362306
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Description:Text transcribed from caption: P-46655 CENTENNIAL OF FIRST BLACK EPISCOPAL BISHOP MARKED WASHINGTON, D.C. -- The 100th anniversary of the consecration of James Theodore Holly, first black bishop of the Episcopal Church in this country, will be commemorated with a conference Feb. 7-8 at the Washington Cathedra. Featuring talks by experts on Haiti (where Bishop Holly ministered for more than 50 years), the conference is co-sponsored by the cathedral and the Black Episcopal Clergy Association. Bishop Holly was born in Washington in 1829 of Roman Catholic free parents, later converting to the Episcopal Church. He was ordained a deacon in 1855 and a priest the following year. In 1874, he was consecrated bishop of Haiti, becoming the first black to be elevated to the episcopate by the Church. He died in 1911. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (JN-WAS-1D-75-DS)URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:362305
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Description:Text transcribed from caption: P-46625 BRINGS GREETINGS FROM ‘PHILADELPHIA 11’ NASHVILLE -- Suzanne Hiatt, one of the 11 Episcopal women whose ordinations to the priesthood in Philadelphia last July were ruled invalid by the Episcopal hierarchy, brings greetings from the 11 women to the National Consultation of Ordained Women in the United Methodist Church, held at Scarritt College in Nashville. Ms. Hiatt asked for financial support to help meet expenses incurred in attempts to win recognition of the Philadelphia orders. She also urged the women to “work to get district superintendents and bishops elected in the United Methodist Church from among your own number.” Between 150 and 200 of the United Methodist women ministers attending the meeting called on their denomination, and especially the bishops, to recognize and support the Episcopal women. In a petition circulated at the consultation, bishops were urged to invite the 11 women to become full ministers in the United Methodist Church. The Nashville meeting brought together 300 of the 500 ordained women in the 10-million-member denomination. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (C-NAS-1C-75-DS)URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:362304
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Description:Text transcribed from caption: P-46624 SOVIET CHURCHMEN VISIT INDIA MADRAS, India -- Two prominent Soviet churchmen, Archbishop Yan Matulis (left) of the Lutheran Church of Latavia and Russian Orthodox Metropolitan Philaret Denisenko of Kiev and Galicia, recently visited India at the invitation of the National Christian Council of India. During their visit they went to New Delhi, Hyderabad, Bangalore and Madras. In Madras, they were given a public reception by the Church of South India and other churches and Christian associations. The two churchmen maintained that there is absolute freedom of worship for the 60 million Christians in the Soviet Union and that the government is not interested in how religion is practiced in families. The churches, they said, do not interfere in the political life of the state and confine themselves to religious activities. Churches in the Soviet Union are financially independent of the state and are self-supporting, which each denomination having its own theological schools or seminaries. Any preaching that is done, however, is done only within the churches. “We do not and cannot preach in the streets or any public place,” one of the churchmen explained. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO by John H. Piet (JHP-IND-1C-75-DS)URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:362303
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Description:Text transcribed from caption: P-46612 INSTALLED AS LUTHER SEMINARY PRESIDENT MINNEAPOLIS -- Dr. David W. Preus (left), president of the American Lutheran Church, installs Dr. Lloyd Svendsbye as president of Luther Theological Seminary, St. Paul, the nation’s largest Lutheran seminary. Dr. Svendsbye, 44, succeeds Dr. Alvin N. Rogness, who retired last June. The installation was held at Central Lutheran Church, Minneapolis. In his installation address, Dr. Svendsbye, a former dean of St. Olaf College, Northfield, Minn., and editor-in-chief of Augsburg Publishing House, Minneapolis, said the relationship of maleness to femaleness is the largest ethical issue facing the Christian Church. He said it was an issue for liberals and conservatives, for people of all income levels and vocations, for all races and for people on all continents. Luther Seminary, operated by the American Lutheran Church, currently has 29 women among its 537 students. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (WLT-MIN-1C-75-DS)URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:362302
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Description:Text transcribed from caption: P-46570 FIRST SPEECH IN HOUSE OF LORDS LONDON -- Archbishop Donald Coggan of Canterbury, recently installed as the spiritual leader of the worldwide Anglican community, is flanked by Bishop Gerald Ellison of London (left) and Bishop Arthur Stockwood of Southwark (right) before making his first speech as Archbishop of Canterbury in the House of Lords. Dr. Coggan chose the debate on the reintroduction of capital punishment to make his speech. He ended by saying, “Let there be punishment of the most severe kind for those who murder defenseless women and children, or who hold to ransom those whose way of life or thought they happen to oppose. But leave the final judgement of death in the hands where final judgment rests and where forgiveness can alone be found.” Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (PP-LON-12D-74-DS)URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:362301
