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Description:Text transcribed from caption: PCO-46558 WAR-DAMAGED ORTHODOX CHURCHES ON CYPRUS NICOSIA -- The Church of St. George (top) and Makedonitissa Church, both near Nicosia, were heavily damaged during the fighting which followed the Turkish invasion of Cyprus last July. St. George was reportedly “deliberately” burned while the other church was bombarded by the Turks. During the invasion, which followed an attempted coup d’etat of the Cypriote government by the military government of Greece, which fell as a result of the blunder, Turkey captured the northern third of the island. Numerous Christian churches were damaged and destroyed during the fighting and large scale looting of holy icons and other religious treasures has been charged. In October it was reported that almost 200 Greek Orthodox churches in the Turkish-occupied part of Cyprus were either closed or being used by the Turks for non-religious purposes. Recently a World Council of Churches official who visited the island said that Christian and Muslim representatives have been guaranteed the right to investigate complaints of the desecration of churches and mosques on Cyprus. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (CZC-ATH-12D-74-DS)Creator:Constantinidis, G. (photographer)Subject names:Religious News Service--Archives., Turkey. Ordu., Orthodoxos Ekklēsia tēs Hellados--Buildings.Topics:Church buildings--Cyprus--Nicosia., Buildings--War damage--Cyprus--Nicosia.Geographic subjects:Nicosia (Cyprus), Cyprus--History--Cyprus Crisis, 1974-URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:362274
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Description:Text transcribed from caption: PCO-46558 WAR-DAMAGED ORTHODOX CHURCHES ON CYPRUS NICOSIA -- The Church of St. George (top) and Makedonitissa Church, both near Nicosia, were heavily damaged during the fighting which followed the Turkish invasion of Cyprus last July. St. George was reportedly “deliberately” burned while the other church was bombarded by the Turks. During the invasion, which followed an attempted coup d’etat of the Cypriote government by the military government of Greece, which fell as a result of the blunder, Turkey captured the northern third of the island. Numerous Christian churches were damaged and destroyed during the fighting and large scale looting of holy icons and other religious treasures has been charged. In October it was reported that almost 200 Greek Orthodox churches in the Turkish-occupied part of Cyprus were either closed or being used by the Turks for non-religious purposes. Recently a World Council of Churches official who visited the island said that Christian and Muslim representatives have been guaranteed the right to investigate complaints of the desecration of churches and mosques on Cyprus. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (CZC-ATH-12D-74-DS)Creator:Constantinidis, G. (photographer)Subject names:Religious News Service--Archives., Turkey. Ordu., Orthodoxos Ekklēsia tēs Hellados--Buildings.Topics:Church buildings--Cyprus--Nicosia., Buildings--War damage--Cyprus--Nicosia.Geographic subjects:Nicosia (Cyprus), Cyprus--History--Cyprus Crisis, 1974-URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:362273
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Description:Text transcribed from caption: PCJ-46600 RABBI, FATHER OF BRAIN-DAMAGED SON, FINDS ‘MIRACLES’ NEW YORK -- A Chicago rabbi and his wife has discovered, with the aid of their brain-damaged son and his Christian school teacher, that God always answers prayers -- although not always in a way expected. “Miracles were happening all the time, but not the obvious ones we were hoping for,” said Rabbi Hyman Agress, whose “smug little world” was shattered in 1962 with the diagnosis that his first-born son, Michael, was retarded and would never be “normal.” Rabbi Agress, author of Why Me? (Creation House), said in an interview in New York that God did not give Michael the miraculous healing for which he so desperately prayed at first. But the seeming tragedy has knit the family closer together and made them infinitely better people. In Why Me? Rabbi Agress tells how, after years of attempting to find help and schooling for Michael, he and his wife turned to the relatively unknown Grove School for Exceptional Children in Deerfield, Ill., operated by a “devout Quaker woman,” Virginia Matson. Rabbi Agress said he regards finding the school one of the miracles. The school not only began to bring order in Michael’s and his family’s lives but also gave them new hope and regained faith. Here, the Agress family plays with an electric train set in their home in the Chicago suburb of Aurora, where Rabbi Agress is spiritual leader of Temple B’nai Israel. From left are, Mrs. Agress, Steve, 13, Rabbi Agress, Alexandra, 9, and Michael, now 15. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (C-CHI-1B-75-DS)Creator:Agress, Hyman. (contributor)Subject names:Religious News Service--Archives., Agress, Hyman., Agress, Frances., Agress, Alexandra., Agress, Michael., Agress, Stephen.Topics:Rabbis--Illinois--Aurora., Rabbis' spouses--Illinois--Aurora., Children with mental disabilities--Illinois--Aurora., Parents of children with mental disabilities--Illinois--Aurora., Children with mental disabilities--Education.Geographic subjects:Aurora (Ill.)URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:362272
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Description:Text transcribed from caption: PCJ-46559 TERRORIST GRENADE INJURES U.S. GIRL JERUSALEM -- Dejean Replogle, 16, of Jacksonville, Fla., is comforted by a doctor in the Jerusalem hospital after she was injured when a terrorist grenade struck the bus in which she was riding. Miss Replogle and 17 fellow parishioners of the Main Street Baptist Church of Jacksonville were travelling from Jerusalem to Jericho when the grenade hit the bus at the ruins of Bethany. Shrapnel struck Miss Replogle in the leg and she was rushed to Jerusalem where she underwent surgery. In Beirut, the Palestine Liberation Organization took responsibility for the attack and warned foreigners “not to go to occupied Palestine as we are not responsible if they get hurt during the escalation of commando activity against the Israeli enemy.” Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (B-Jer-12D-74-DS)Creator:United Press International. (publisher)Subject names:Religious News Service--Archives., Replogle, Dejean., Munaẓẓamat al-Taḥrīr al-Filasṭīnīyah.Topics:Physicians--Jerusalem., Tourism--Religious aspects--Christianity., Tourism--Israel., Arab-Israeli conflict., Terrorism--Jerusalem., Victims of terrorism--Jerusalem.Geographic subjects:Jerusalem.URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:362271
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Title:Description:Text transcribed from caption: PCJ-46555 AFTER A RAID MAJDAL ZOUN, Lebanon -- A Lebanese family surveys the ruins of their home in the village of Majdal Zoun after helicopter-borne Israeli troops staged a raid on the border village, blowing up six houses that were said to have been used by terrorists. The Israelis took two prisoners for interrogation on suspicion of collaboration with Arab guerrillas. Several hours after the raid in Lebanon, Arab guerrillas attacked a border hamlet in Israel. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (B-BRT-12C-74-DS)Creator:United Press International. (publisher)Subject names:Religious News Service--Archives., Israel. Tseva haganah le-Yiśraʼel.Topics:Refugees--Lebanon--Janūb., Arab-Israeli conflict., Israel-Arab Border Conflicts, 1949---Lebanon--Janūb., Buildings--War damage--Lebanon--Janūb., Rubble.Geographic subjects:Janūb (Lebanon)URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:362270
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Title:Description:Text transcribed from caption: PCJ-46554 RESPOND TO SOVIET REJECTION WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Senators Jacob Javits (R-N.Y.), left, and Henry Jackson (D-Wash.) hold a copy of a letter from Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko to Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, dated Oct. 26, in which the Kremlin official said that the Soviet Union had made no agreement to allow Jews and others to emigrate in exchange for U.S. trade concessions. The rejection of any agreement on emigration and trade was also published by Tass, the official Soviet press agency, and broadcast on regional television and radio in the Soviet Union on Dec. 18. Sen. Jackson, who has led the drive to included the emigration stipulation in the trade legislation, said that he would press for approval of the trade bill by Congress and noted that if the Russians did not liberalize emigration, they would lose the trade benefits. Some observers felt the Tass story might be a “face-saving” tactic on the part of the Soviet government for its own people. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (B-WAS-12C-74-DS)Creator:United Press International. (publisher)Subject names:Religious News Service--Archives., Jackson, Henry M. (Henry Martin), 1912-1983., Javits, Jacob K. (Jacob Koppel), 1904-1986., United States. Congress. Senate., Gromyko, Andreĭ Andreevich, 1909-1989--Correspondence.Topics:Legislators--United States., Treaties., Emigration and immigration., Cold War.Geographic subjects:Washington (D.C.), United States--Foreign relations--Soviet Union., Soviet Union--Foreign relations--United States.URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:362269
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Description:Text transcribed from caption: PC-46660 THOUSANDS PROTEST COURT’S ABORTION DECISION WASHINGTON, D.C. -- A massive right-to-life rally, involving more than 30,000 adherents of an effort to reverse the 1973 U.S. Supreme Court rulings on abortion, is tagged on the steps of the Capitol in Washington. Some estimates of the crowd ran as high as 50,000 persons from “nearly every state,” including Hawaii, and the rally and subsequent “march for life” around the Capitol was described as the largest “pro-life” gathering ever. The demonstration marked the second anniversary of the Jan. 22, 1973 Court decision, which largely overturned most state abortion laws. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (RN-WAS-2D-75-DS)Creator:Reni Newsphotos, Inc. (Washington, D.C.) (photographer)Subject names:Religious News Service--Archives., United States Capitol (Washington, D.C.), United States. Supreme Court--Anniversaries, etc.Topics:Demonstrations--Washington (D.C.), Abortion--Government policy--Citizen participation., Pro-life movement--United States., Picketing--Washington (D.C.), Anniversaries.Geographic subjects:Washington (D.C.)URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:362268
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Description:Text transcribed from caption: PC-46657 ASIAN CHRISTIAN PEACE CONFERENCE KOTTAYAM, India -- Delegate to the first assembly of the Asian Christian Peace Conference march through Kottayam, India, site of the assembly. Below, school children, led by Roman Catholic nuns, participate in the rally held during the assembly. The assembly called for an “absolute ban” on all manufacturing, testing and stockpiling of nuclear weapons. Assembly delegates also accused the U.S. of being the chief promoter of the nuclear arms race, and called for American withdrawal of all nuclear weapons in Asia. The Asian Christian Peace Conference is a new regional affiliate of the Prague-based CPC, once a major channel of East-West church relations but more recently found chiefly in Communist countries of Eastern Europe. Most Western CPC national groups disbanded or changed their name as a result of the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968. The CPC now seeks to enlist members among developing nations of Africa and Asia. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (TEM-IND-1D-75-DS)Creator:Mathew, T.E. (photographer)Subject names:Religious News Service--Archives., Christian Peace Conference--Congresses., Christian Peace Conference., Asian Christian Peace Conference (Kottayam, India), Asian Christian Peace Conference (Kottayam, India)--Congresses.Topics:Congresses and conventions--India--Kottayam., Demonstrations--India--Kottayam., Peace-building--Religious aspects--Christianity., Nuclear arms control., Cold War., Nuns--India--Kottayam., Picketing--India--Kottayam.Geographic subjects:Kottayam (India)URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:362267
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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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Description:Text transcribed from caption: PC-46648 MAKARIOS CALMS ANTI-U.S. CROWD NICOSIA, Cyprus -- Archbishop Makarios (center), the President of Cyprus, sits on a low wall outside the U.S. cultural center in Nicosia and calms a crowd of youthful demonstrators attacking the center. The Archbishop led the demonstrators away from the center and spoke to them from the steps of the Greek Embassy a few blocks away. When he asked them to disperse, most of them did. Several days earlier, a crowd had sacked a wing of the U.S. Embassy and two British offices in Nicosia. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (A-NIC-1D-75-DS)Creator:Wide World Photos, Inc. (publisher)Subject names:Religious News Service--Archives., Makarios, III, Archbishop of Cyprus, 1913-1977., Orthodoxos Ekklēsia tēs Hellados--Bishops.Topics:Presidents--Cyprus., Bishops--Cyprus--Nicosia., Demonstrations--Cyprus--Nicosia.Geographic subjects:Nicosia (Cyprus), Cyprus--History--Cyprus Crisis, 1974-, Cyprus--Foreign relations--United States.URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:362265
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Title:Description:Text transcribed from caption: PC-46647 WHERE THE TREATMENT IS FOOD RANGPUR PROVINCE, Bangladesh -- A girl and her mother sit on a bed in a hospital in Bangladesh’s Rangpur Province, one of the areas most affected by the floods which swept the country in late summer. The hospital, which is operated by Lutheran World Federation/World Service, has found that most people it admits are suffering from malnutrition and the treatment is food. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (C-BAN-1D-75-DS)Creator:Lutheran World Federation. (publisher)Subject names:Religious News Service--Archives., Lutheran World Federation.Topics:Refugees--Bangladesh--Rangpur District., Refugee children--Bangladesh--Rangpur District., Famines--Bangladesh., Floods--Bangladesh., International relief., Emergency medical services--Bangladesh--Rangpur District., Emergency food supply--Bangladesh.Geographic subjects:Rangpur District (Bangladesh)URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:362264
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Title:Description:Text transcribed from caption: PC-46646 FOOD LINES REMAIN BANGLADESH -- Food lines are long and the supplies are limited, but the government of Bangladesh, with the help of relief agencies, is attempting to feed its more than 15 million homeless people. The homeless are mostly peasants who lost everything in the floods which swept the nation during the summer, causing the total failure of many crops and destroying countless homes. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (C-BAN-1D-75-DS)Creator:McKinley, James F., Jr. (photographer), Lutheran World Federation. (publisher)Subject names:Religious News Service--Archives., Lutheran World Federation.Topics:Refugees--Bangladesh., Refugee children--Bangladesh., Famines--Bangladesh., Floods--Bangladesh., International relief., Emergency food supply--Bangladesh.Geographic subjects:Bangladesh.URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:362263
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Description:Text transcribed from caption: PC-46645 ARMED INDIANS TO CONTINUE OCCUPATION GRESHAM, Wis. -- Melvin Chevalier (seated) of the Menomonee Warrior Society holds a carbine and another Indian displays a sawed off shotgun during a news conference at the Alexian Brothers Novitiate near Gresham, Wis., which Indians have occupied since Jan. 1. The Indians renewed their demands for the deed to the property and an unconditional amnesty. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (A-WIS-1D-74-DS)Creator:Wide World Photos, Inc. (publisher)Subject names:Religious News Service--Archives., Alexian Brothers--Buildings., Chevalier, Melvin.Topics:Demonstrations--Wisconsin--Gresham., Indigenous peoples of North America--Civil rights., Red Power movement--Wisconsin., Civil rights movements--United States., Indigenous peoples of North America--Wisconsin--Gresham., Press conferences--Wisconsin--Gresham., Indigenous peoples of North America--Housing.Geographic subjects:Gresham (Wis.), Menominee Indian Tribe of Wisconsin.URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:362262
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Description:Text transcribed from caption: PC-46644 TENSION AND PRAYERS IN NORTHERN IRELAND BELFAST -- With the end of the Irish Republican Army Provisionals’ cease-fire, tensions returned to the streets of Belfast and other cities in Northern Ireland. At left, a soldier keeps his finger on the trigger while another soldier checks a van for explosives or firearms at a vehicle checkpoint. At right, people stand in silent prayer during a peace rally at Belfast’s City Hall. About 12,000 people turned out for the interdenominational rally, marching through heavy rain. Leading Protestant and Roman Catholic clergymen conducted a brief prayer service. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (B/A-BEL-1D-75-DS)Creator:Wide World Photos, Inc. (publisher)Subject names:Religious News Service--Archives., Belfast City Hall (Belfast, Northern Ireland)Topics:Prayer., Demonstrations--Northern Ireland--Belfast., Autonomy and independence movements.Geographic subjects:Belfast (Northern Ireland), Northern Ireland--History--1968-1998., Northern Ireland--History--Autonomy and independence movements.URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:362261
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Description:Text transcribed from caption: PC-46644 TENSION AND PRAYERS IN NORTHERN IRELAND BELFAST -- With the end of the Irish Republican Army Provisionals’ cease-fire, tensions returned to the streets of Belfast and other cities in Northern Ireland. At left, a soldier keeps his finger on the trigger while another soldier checks a van for explosives or firearms at a vehicle checkpoint. At right, people stand in silent prayer during a peace rally at Belfast’s City Hall. About 12,000 people turned out for the interdenominational rally, marching through heavy rain. Leading Protestant and Roman Catholic clergymen conducted a brief prayer service. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (B/A-BEL-1D-75-DS)Creator:United Press International. (publisher)Subject names:Religious News Service--Archives., Provisional IRA., Great Britain. Army.Topics:Soldiers--Northern Ireland--Belfast., Autonomy and independence movements., Public safety--Northern Ireland--Belfast.Geographic subjects:Belfast (Northern Ireland), Northern Ireland--History--1968-1998., Northern Ireland--History--Autonomy and independence movements.URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:362260
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Description:Text transcribed from caption: PC-46640 EUCHARIST BY WOMEN LEADS TO CHURCH TRIAL CLEVELAND -- Bishop John H. Burt of the Episcopal Diocese of Ohio reads a statement ordering the convening of an ecclesiastical court to try the Rev. L. Peter Beebe (right), pastor of Christ Episcopal Church in Oberlin, on charges of breaking canon law by permitting two women to celebrate the Eucharist in his church Dec. 8. The two women, the Rev. Carter Heward of New York and the Rev. Allison Cheek of Virginia, had been among the 11 women who took part in an irregular service of ordination last July that was later declared invalid by the Episcopal House of Bishops. If Father Beebe is found guilty of disobeying Church law, he could be censured, suspended from his duties in Oberlin, or expelled from the priesthood. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (B-CLE-1C-75-DS)Creator:United Press International. (publisher)Subject names:Religious News Service--Archives., Episcopal Church--Clergy., Episcopal Church--Discipline., Burt, John H. (John Harris), Episcopal Church--Bishops., Beebe, L. Peter.Topics:Bishops--Ohio--Cleveland., Clergy--Ohio--Cleveland., Ordination of women--Episcopal Church., Canon law--Episcopal Church., Lord's Supper (Canon law)--Episcopal Church., Ecclesiastical courts.Geographic subjects:Cleveland (Ohio)URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:362259
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Title:Description:Text transcribed from caption: PC-46621 CONFRONTATION SHAWANO, Wis. -- Police help guard the Shawano County, Wis., Sheriff’s Department while Indian demonstrators picket the building. The demonstrators were seeking removal of police checkpoints around the Roman Catholic novitiate in Gresham that had been seized by the Menominee Indians on New Year’s Day. The Indians have demanded that the unused 64-room building and the surrounding complex, owned by the Alexian Brothers, be turned over to them for use as a health and housing facility. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (B-WIS-1C-75-DS)Creator:United Press International. (publisher)Subject names:Religious News Service--Archives., Alexian Brothers--Buildings.Topics:Demonstrations--Wisconsin--Gresham., Indigenous peoples of North America--Civil rights., Red Power movement--Wisconsin., Civil rights movements--United States., Indigenous peoples of North America--Wisconsin--Shawano., Picketing--Wisconsin--Shawano., Civil rights demonstrations--Wisconsin--Shawano., Police--Wisconsin--Shawano.Geographic subjects:Shawano (Wis.), Menominee Indian Tribe of Wisconsin., Gresham (Wis.)URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:362258
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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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Title:Description:Text transcribed from caption: PC-46618 A LADY TAKES THE CHAIR NEW YORK -- Roy Wilkins, executive director of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), introduces Margaret Bush Wilson, the first woman to head the civil rights organization, during a New York press conference. The NAACP’s board of directors elected the St. Louis lawyer as chairman from among four contenders to succeed Bishop Stephen G. Spottswood, who died in December after serving as chairman since 1961. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (B-NY-1C-75-DS)Creator:United Press International. (publisher)Subject names:Religious News Service--Archives., National Association for the Advancement of Colored People., Wilkins, Roy, 1901-1981., Wilson, Margaret Bush, 1919-2009.Topics:Civil rights workers--New York (State)--New York., Press conferences--New York (State)--New York., Lawyers--New York (State)--New York., Women lawyers--New York (State)--New York., African American lawyers--New York (State)--New York.Geographic subjects:New York (N.Y.)URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:362256
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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
