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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Priest backs Cuba visitors.
Description:
Text transcribed from caption: C-29886 PRIEST BACKS CUBA VISITORS WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Father Felix McGowan, M.M., a priest suspended by his superiors in the Maryknoll order, has thrown his support behind some 50 students who went on an unauthorized trip to Cuba. He is shown here as he addressed the students at a Washington rally. Father McGowan, a former missionary in Bolivia, was suspended from his priestly duties after he himself went to Cuba as a reporter for The Catholic Worker, a periodical published in New York. The suspended Maryknoller commented that there is religious freedom in Cuba. “All the churches are open. Priests can preach. Anybody can go to church,” he said. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (W-WASH-9C-63-RB)
Creator:
Wide World Photos, Inc. (publisher)
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., Catholic Church--Clergy., McGowan, Felix., Catholic Foreign Mission Society of America.
Topics:
Clergy--Washington (D.C.), Journalists--Washington (D.C.), Freedom of religion--Cuba.
Geographic subjects:
Washington (D.C.), Cuba--Foreign relations--1959-1990., United States--Foreign relations--Cuba.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:358060
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Administered last rites to President.
Description:
Text transcribed from caption: C-30280 ADMINISTERED LAST RITES TO PRESIDENT DALLAS, Texas -- Father Oscar Huber, C.M., pastor of Holy Trinity Catholic church in Dallas, leaves Parkland Hospital after administering the last rites of the Church to the late President John F. Kennedy, slain by an assassin’s bullet. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (W-11E-63-W)
Creator:
Wide World Photos, Inc. (publisher)
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., Huber, Oscar L., Catholic Church--Clergy., Parkland Memorial Hospital (Dallas, Tex.), Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald), 1917-1963--Assassination.
Topics:
Clergy--Texas--Dallas., Presidents--Assassination--United States., Extreme unction--Texas--Dallas., Sacraments--Catholic Church.
Geographic subjects:
Dallas (Tex.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:352871

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