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Description:Text transcribed from caption: PC-46656 CHURCHES CHALLENGED ON WORLD HUNGER NEW YORK -- The Rev. Arthur Simon, a Lutheran clergyman who heads the Christian citizens’ movement on hunger -- Bread for the World -- tells a gathering of Roman Catholic Bishops and priests that U.S. Christians have failed to indicate their concern over world hunger sufficiently to prod government action on the food crisis. In asking, “Where are the Christians?” Mr. Simon observed that Church leaders have said all the right things about the world hunger and poverty situation. But, he added, Christian people at the grassroots level have not responded. He said there is a “big gap” between words and action. The Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod clergyman made his remarks in a speech at the New York Catholic Center to diocesan clergy and lay officials concerned with promoting the annual American Catholic Overseas Aid Fund appeal. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO by Chris Sheridan (CS-NY-1D-75-DS)Creator:Sheridan, Chris. (photographer)Subject names:Religious News Service--Archives., Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod--Clergy., Simon, Arthur R., Bread for the World (Organization), Catholic Church--Finances.Topics:Clergy--New York (State)--New York., Hunger--Religious aspects--Christianity., International relief., Charity--Religious aspects--Christianity., Fund raising--United States.Geographic subjects:New York (N.Y.)URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:362266
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Title:Description:Text transcribed from caption: PC-46620 ‘SHOW BUSINESS CHAPEL’ NEW YORK -- For Austin Miles, the term “show business chapel” has two meanings. It is the title of a series of 100 “spots” that the 40-year-old Assemblies of God minister has recorded in Detroit for national distribution through Video Associates, Inc. And it is also a description of the portable worship center that he takes with him on his travels as announcer for the Royal Lipizzan Stallion Show, “The Wonderful World of Horses.” As the first international show business chaplain of the Assemblies of God, Mr. Miles has brought a Christian witness to the horse show, as he had done earlier for several circuses he had served as ringmaster. “Show business people are no different from any other people in their basic needs,” he points out. “They’ve got problems, face temptations, have tough schedules. Even a glamorous performer needs assurance of the love of God.” Here, Mr. Miles (right) chats with G. Edward Nelson Jr. of the American Bible Society in the portable chapel he has set up in a Madison Square Garden dressing room. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO by Chris Sheridan (CS-NY-1C-75-DS)Creator:Sheridan, Chris. (photographer)Subject names:Religious News Service--Archives., Miles, Austin, 1933-, Assemblies of God--Clergy., Madison Square Garden (New York, N.Y. : 1968- ), Nelson, G. Edward, Jr., American Bible Society.Topics:Clergy--New York (State)--New York., Chapels--New York (State)--New York., Pastoral theology., Entertainers--Pastoral counseling of.Geographic subjects:Manhattan (New York, N.Y.)URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:362257
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Description:Text transcribed from caption: PC-46615 REPORT ON CORPORATE CHALLENGES NEW YORK -- Representatives of groups in the Church Project on U.S. Investments in Southern Africa report on stockholder challenges underway against U.S. corporations doing business in southern Africa during a press conference in New York. From left to right are: Dr. Howard Schomer of the United Church Board for World Ministries; Canon Burgess Carr, general secretary of the All Africa Conference of Churches; Dr. Donald Wilson, chairman of the Church Projects; Brother Robert Taylor of the Franciscan Friars of the Atonement; and Timothy Smith, coordinator of the Interfaith Center for Corporate Responsibility. It was announced that 14 U.S. religious groups have joined in a stock action asking International Business Machines (IBM) to stop selling computers to the Republic of South Africa. Nine Protestant agencies and five Roman Catholic orders, owning a total of more than $9 million in IBM stock, are parties to a shareholder resolution that accuses the corporation of supporting South African “apartheid” (racial separation). Computers, challengers say, help South Africa’s white minority government “oppress” the black majority. IBM is one of seven corporations being challenged this year on South African operations by one or more groups in the Church Project. The other companies are Phillips Petroleum, Getty Oil, Standard Oil of California, International Telephone and Telegraph, Union Carbide and the Southern Company. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO by John Lei (JL-NY-1C-75-DS)Creator:Lei, John C. (photographer)Subject names:Religious News Service--Archives., Church Project on United States Investments in Southern Africa (New York, N.Y.), Carr, Canon Burgess., All Africa Conference of Churches., Schomer, Howard, 1915-, Wilson, Donald., Smith, Timothy., Taylor, Robert.Topics:Clergy--New York (State)--New York., Press conferences--New York (State)--New York., Anti-apartheid movements--United States., Disinvestment--South Africa., Interdenominational cooperation--United States., Segregation--South Africa.Geographic subjects:New York (N.Y.), South Africa--Race relations.URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:362255
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Description:Text transcribed from caption: P-46616 APPLAUDS EFFORTS OF U.S. GROUPS NEW YORK -- Canon Burgess Carr, general secretary of the All Africa Conference of Churches, based in Nairobi, Kenya, praises the efforts of U.S. religious groups in opposing U.S. business practices that bolster “racist and colonial regimes” in southern Africa. Canon Carr made his statement at a New York press conference during which representatives of the Church Project on U.S. Investment in Southern Africa -- a coalition of Protestant agencies and Roman Catholic religious orders -- announced a series of stockholder challenges against seven U.S. corporations doing business in southern Africa. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (JL-NY-1C-75-DS)Creator:Lei, John C. (photographer)Subject names:Religious News Service--Archives., Church Project on United States Investments in Southern Africa (New York, N.Y.), Carr, Canon Burgess., All Africa Conference of Churches.Topics:Clergy--New York (State)--New York., Press conferences--New York (State)--New York., Anti-apartheid movements--United States., Disinvestment--South Africa., Interdenominational cooperation--United States., Segregation--South Africa., Clergy, Black--New York (State)--New York.Geographic subjects:New York (N.Y.), South Africa--Race relations.URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:362228
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Creator:Religious News Service. (author)Subject names:Religious News Service--Archives., Miles, Austin, 1933-, Assemblies of God--Clergy., Madison Square Garden (New York, N.Y. : 1968- ), Nelson, G. Edward, Jr., American Bible Society.Topics:Clergy--New York (State)--New York., Chapels--New York (State)--New York., Pastoral theology., Entertainers--Pastoral counseling of.Geographic subjects:Manhattan (New York, N.Y.)URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:362174
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Creator:Religious News Service. (author)Subject names:Religious News Service--Archives., Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod--Clergy., Simon, Arthur R., Bread for the World (Organization), Catholic Church--Finances.Topics:Clergy--New York (State)--New York., Hunger--Religious aspects--Christianity., International relief., Charity--Religious aspects--Christianity., Fund raising--United States.Geographic subjects:New York (N.Y.)URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:362146
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Title:Description:Includes caption of another, unidentified photograph.Creator:Sheridan, Chris. (author)Subject names:Religious News Service--Archives., Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod--Clergy., Simon, Arthur R., Bread for the World (Organization)Topics:Clergy--New York (State)--New York., Hunger--Religious aspects--Christianity., International relief., Charity--Religious aspects--Christianity.Geographic subjects:New York (N.Y.)URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:362139
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Creator:Religious News Service. (author)Subject names:Religious News Service--Archives., Church Project on United States Investments in Southern Africa (New York, N.Y.), Carr, Canon Burgess., All Africa Conference of Churches., Schomer, Howard, 1915-, Wilson, Donald.Topics:Clergy--New York (State)--New York., Press conferences--New York (State)--New York., Anti-apartheid movements--United States., Disinvestment--South Africa., Interdenominational cooperation--United States., Segregation--South Africa.Geographic subjects:New York (N.Y.), South Africa--Race relations.URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:362066
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Description:Text transcribed from caption: PCJ-46212 RALLY PROTESTS UN BID TO PALESTINIANS NEW YORK -- A crowd estimated at more than 100,000 jams Dag Hammarskjold Plaza opposite United Nations headquarters in New York (top photo) to denounce the organization’s invitation to representatives of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) to address a session of the its General Assembly. Sponsored by the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, the rally was one of the largest Jewish demonstrations in the history of New York City. Below, Sen. Henry Jackson (D-Wash.), left, one of several political leaders who addressed the rally, wave to the crowd. Others on the speakers platform include, left to right, Rabbi Israel Miller, chairman of the Conference of Presidents; former Attorney General Ramsey Clark, Sen. Jacob Javits (R-N.Y.), and Dr. Arnold Olson, president of the Evangelical Free Church of America. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (JL-NY-11A-74-DS)Creator:Lei, John C. (photographer)Subject names:Religious News Service--Archives., United Nations. General Assembly--Congresses., Munaẓẓamat al-Taḥrīr al-Filasṭīnīyah., Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations., Jackson, Henry M. (Henry Martin), 1912-1983., Miller, Israel, 1918-2002., Clark, Ramsey, 1927-2021., Javits, Jacob K. (Jacob Koppel), 1904-1986., Olson, Arnold Theodore., Evangelical Free Church of America--Clergy.Topics:Demonstrations--New York (State)--New York., Arab-Israeli conflict., Palestine question (1948-), Picketing--New York (State)--New York., Legislators--United States., Rabbis--New York (State)--New York., Clergy--New York (State)--New York.Geographic subjects:Manhattan (New York, N.Y.)URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:361963
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Title:Description:Text transcribed from caption: PC-46280 AT ECUMENICAL SERVICE NEW YORK -- Roman Catholic Bishop Francis A. Mugavero of Brooklyn (left) and Dr. Eugene Carson Blake, the former general secretary of the World Council of Churches, take part in an ecumenical service marking the 10th anniversary of Vatican II’s Decree on Ecumenism at St. James Roman Catholic Cathedral in Brooklyn. During the service, Dr. Blake, a former Stated Clerk of the United Presbyterian Church, paid tribute to the decree, terming it “the document that made possible the ecumenical movement.” Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (C-NY-11D-74-DS)Creator:Catholic Church. Diocese of Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) (publisher)Subject names:Religious News Service--Archives., Catholic Church--Bishops., Mugavero, Francis J., Blake, Eugene Carson, 1906-1985., United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A.--Clergy., Vatican Council (2nd : 1962-1965 : Basilica di San Pietro in Vaticano)--Anniversaries, etc., Catholic Church--Relations--Protestant churches.Topics:Ecumenical movement--United States., Bishops--New York (State)--New York., Clergy--New York (State)--New York., Anniversaries., Protestant churches--Relations--Catholic Church.Geographic subjects:Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:361945
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Title:Description:Text transcribed from caption: P-46205 FAMILY OF MAN AWARDS NEW YORK -- Gold and Bronze Medallions are presented during the annual dinner of the Society of the Family of Man, sponsored by the Council of Churches of the City of New York. From left to right are: John deButts, board chairman of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company who received the Bronze Medallion in the business and industry category; Lewis W. Foy, chairman of the Society; Dr. William R. Tobert, Jr., president of Liberia and a past-president of the Baptist World Alliance, recipient of the Gold Medallion; and Dr. Dan M. Potter, executive director of the Council of Churches. In his acceptance address, Dr. Tolbert, who is pastor of Zion Praise Baptist Church in Bentol as well as head of state of his country, issued a “rallying call” for “human endearment and total involvement for human upliftment and fulfilment” to solve the problems of humanity. Also honored with the Bronze Medallion in the sports category but not present at the dinner was Hank Aaron, who this year set a new career home run record in baseball. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (JL-NY-11A-74-DS)Creator:Lei, John C. (photographer)Subject names:Religious News Service--Archives., Council of Churches of the City of New York., Council of Churches of the City of New York--Awards., DeButts, John D. (John Dulany), 1915-1986., Foy, Lewis W., Tolbert, William R., Jr., 1913-1980., Potter, Dan M.Topics:Award presentations--New York (State)--New York., Presidents--Liberia., Businessmen--New York (State)--New York., Clergy--New York (State)--New York.Geographic subjects:New York (N.Y.), Liberia.URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:361920
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Title:Description:Text transcribed from caption: C-46227 REGAINING THE PAST NEW YORK -- Simas Kudirka (center, dark jacket) inspects the book that records his mother’s baptism at St Mary of the Angels Catholic Church in Brooklyn. Father Anthony Petrauskas, pastor of the church, shows the 1906 baptismal record book to, from second left, Mr. Kudirka’s son Evaldas, his daughter Lolita, Mr. Kudirka, an unidentified man, and Marija Sulskis, Mr. Kudirka’s mother. Mr. Kudirka, 45, is the Lithuanian seaman who was removed by force from a U.S. Coast Guard cutter in 1970 by officers of a Russian vessel from which he had defected off Martha’s Vineyard. Sentenced to 10 years in a Siberian prison camp for treason, his release was pushed up when the baptism records established the U.S. citizenship of his mother. That was sufficient to qualify him for citizenship in this country too. He was allowed to leave the Soviet Union with his family to begin a new life in the U.S. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (A-NY-11A-74-DS)Creator:Wide World Photos, Inc. (publisher)Subject names:Religious News Service--Archives., St. Mary of the Angels Church (Brooklyn, New York, N.Y.), Kudrika, Simas., Kudirka, Evaldas., Kudirka, Lolita., Sulskis, Marija., Catholic Church--Clergy., Petrauskas, Anthony.Topics:Emigration and immigration., Citizenship--United States., Clergy--New York (State)--New York., Church records and registers--New York (State)--New York., Cold War., Defectors--Soviet Union.Geographic subjects:Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.), Soviet Union--Emigration and immigration.URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:361900
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Description:Text transcribed from caption: C-46224 PRIEST AND PIANIST FORM UNUSUAL TEAM NEW YORK -- Father Peter O’Brien, S.J., introduces the Mary Lou Williams Trio at a concert. The priest and the pianist are a team. “Her contribution to me is very simple to explain,” the assistant pastor of St. Ignatius Loyola Church in New York says. “She’s my spiritual adviser.” For his part, the Jesuit priest has served as business manager for the jazz pianist and composer since 1970. An unusual occupation for a man who spends most of his time preaching, visiting the ill, or teaching religion to grade school students? “I am not the same as a Las Vegas act manager,” Father O’Brien explains. “Mary Lou is one of the few performers I would call a true artist, and she is completely devoted to jazz.” Describing the relevance of all this to a man of the cloth, he notes that “true jazz is a product of oppression and symbolizes man’s spiritual triumph over it, so it is a very religious experience.” This is particularly true of Miss Williams’ music, which includes such pieces as her own “Hymn in Honor of St. Martin de Porres” and “Mary Lou’s Mass.” He says his motivation for becoming her business manager “really stems from by belief that an artist is someone who has been blesses [sic] with a rare gift, and that gift should have its place in the world for everyone to see.” Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (C-NY-11A-74-DS)Creator:Religious News Service. (publisher)Subject names:Religious News Service--Archives., Catholic Church--Clergy., O'Brien, Peter F. (Peter Francis), Jesuits., Williams, Mary Lou, 1910-1981., Mary Lou Williams Trio.Topics:Clergy--New York (State)--New York., Pianists--New York (State)--New York., Women pianists--New York (State)--New York., African American pianists--New York (State)--New York., Jazz., Musical groups--New York (State)--New York.Geographic subjects:New York (N.Y.)URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:361899
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Title:Creator:Lei, John C. (author)Subject names:Religious News Service--Archives., Council of Churches of the City of New York., Council of Churches of the City of New York--Awards., DeButts, John D. (John Dulany), 1915-1986., Foy, Lewis W., Tolbert, William R., Jr., 1913-1980., Potter, Dan M.Topics:Award presentations--New York (State)--New York., Presidents--Liberia., Businessmen--New York (State)--New York., Clergy--New York (State)--New York.Geographic subjects:New York (N.Y.), Liberia.URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:361859
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Title:Creator:Lei, John C. (author)Subject names:Religious News Service--Archives., United Nations. General Assembly--Congresses., Munaẓẓamat al-Taḥrīr al-Filasṭīnīyah., Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations., Jackson, Henry M. (Henry Martin), 1912-1983., Miller, Israel, 1918-2002., Clark, Ramsey, 1927-2021., Javits, Jacob K. (Jacob Koppel), 1904-1986., Olson, Arnold Theodore., Evangelical Free Church of America--Clergy.Topics:Demonstrations--New York (State)--New York., Arab-Israeli conflict., Palestine question (1948-), Picketing--New York (State)--New York., Legislators--United States., Rabbis--New York (State)--New York., Clergy--New York (State)--New York.Geographic subjects:Manhattan (New York, N.Y.)URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:361819
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Creator:Religious News Service. (author)Subject names:Religious News Service--Archives., Catholic Church--Clergy., O'Brien, Peter F. (Peter Francis), Jesuits., Williams, Mary Lou, 1910-1981., Mary Lou Williams Trio.Topics:Clergy--New York (State)--New York., Pianists--New York (State)--New York., Women pianists--New York (State)--New York., African American pianists--New York (State)--New York., Jazz., Musical groups--New York (State)--New York.Geographic subjects:New York (N.Y.)URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:361780
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Title:Creator:Wide World Photos, Inc. (author)Subject names:Religious News Service--Archives., St. Mary of the Angels Church (Brooklyn, New York, N.Y.), Kudrika, Simas., Kudirka, Evaldas., Kudirka, Lolita., Sulskis, Marija., Catholic Church--Clergy., Petrauskas, Anthony.Topics:Emigration and immigration., Citizenship--United States., Clergy--New York (State)--New York., Church records and registers--New York (State)--New York., Cold War., Defectors--Soviet Union.Geographic subjects:Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.), Soviet Union--Emigration and immigration.URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:361772
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Description:Text transcribed from caption: PC-46042 ‘REVELATIONS’ FROM THE REV. MOON NEW YORK -- Intensity shows on the face of the Rev. Sun Myung Moon as he makes his much publicized appearance at New York’s Madison Square Garden. The Korean preacher, founder of the Unification Church, declared time and again during his two and one-half hour discourse that “the messiah” will come soon and establish the “physical kingdom of God on earth.” This new messiah will be the same one that Christians believe came in Jesus Christ, the evangelist asserted, making veiled references to “new revelations” concerning the messiah. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (CS-NY-9C-74-DS)Creator:Sheridan, Chris. (photographer)Subject names:Religious News Service--Archives., Moon, Sun Myung., Unification Church--Clergy., Madison Square Garden (New York, N.Y. : 1968- )Topics:Clergy--New York (State)--New York., Revivals--New York (State)--New York., Evangelistic sermons--New York (State)--New York., Unificationists--New York (State)--New York., Evangelistic work--New York (State)--New York., Revelation.Geographic subjects:Manhattan (New York, N.Y.)URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:361288
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Title:Description:Text transcribed from caption: PC-46043 20,000 HEAR THE REV. MOON NEW YORK -- Gesturing enthusiastically, the Rev. Sun Myung Moon delivers a sermon on “The New Future of Christianity” to an overflow crowd of more than 20,000 at New York’s Madison Square Garden. The Korean preacher’s appearance at the famed arena followed a “media blitz” which saw poster pasted up all over the city, frequent TV commercials and hundreds of Mr. Moon’s followers on street corners handing out leaflets and free tickets to the rally. Although the Garden was standing-room-only at the start of the program, people began leaving by the hundreds after listening to 20 minutes of Mr. Moon’s fiery rhetoric. By the end of the sermon more than half of the audience had walked out. During his two and one-half hour discourse, Mr. Moon claimed to have “direct revelations from God” and declared that “the messiah” will come soon and establish the “physical kingdom of God on earth.” Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (CS-NY-9C-74-DS)Creator:Sheridan, Chris. (photographer)Subject names:Religious News Service--Archives., Moon, Sun Myung., Unification Church--Clergy., Madison Square Garden (New York, N.Y. : 1968- )Topics:Clergy--New York (State)--New York., Revivals--New York (State)--New York., Evangelistic sermons--New York (State)--New York., Unificationists--New York (State)--New York., Evangelistic work--New York (State)--New York., Revelation.Geographic subjects:Manhattan (New York, N.Y.)URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:361275
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Description:Text transcribed from caption: C-45698 HAPPY DAY FOR EIGHT YOUNGSTERS NEW YORK -- While Confirmation is normally not an unusual sacrament, it is for a group of eight students -- all of them brain-damaged or emotionally disturbed children -- as they are confirmed by Auxiliary Bishop Patrick Ahern of New York during a ceremony in St. Eugene’s Chapel of Sacred Heart Church in the Bronx. The youngsters are children at the Murray Hill Classes, a nonsectarian private school for children who have been excluded from public school because of the severity of their illnesses. The school rents the chapel from Sacred Heart Parish and uses it as a classroom building. Father Joseph Gleeson (right), associate pastor at the parish, is a volunteer teacher in the school’s released time religious education program. It was he who prepared the youngsters for Confirmation. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (CS-NY-6C-74-DS)Creator:Sheridan, Chris. (photographer), Catholic Church. Archdiocese of New York (N.Y.) (publisher)Subject names:Religious News Service--Archives., Catholic Church--Liturgy., Catholic Church--Bishops., Catholic Church--Clergy., Ahern, Patrick V., Gleeson, Joseph.Topics:Bishops--New York (State)--New York., Clergy--New York (State)--New York., Confirmation--New York (State)--New York., Confirmation--Catholic Church., Sacraments--Catholic Church., Mass., Children with disabilities--New York (State)--New York., Children with disabilities--Religious life.Geographic subjects:Bronx (New York, N.Y.)URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:360846
