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Description:Text transcribed from caption: C-46596 ‘TAKEOVER’ DEVELOPMENT: SUPPORT FOR SHERIFF GRESHAM, Wis. -- Some 200 persons are shown as they took part in a rally outside St. Francis Catholic Church at Gresham, Wis. They gathered to demonstrate support of Shawano County Sheriff Robert Montour’s handling of the Indian takeover of an unoccupied novitiate building owned by the Alexian Brothers. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (1-NY-1B-75-W)URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:362283
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Title:Description:Text transcribed from caption: C-46584 LUNCH WITH THE POPE VATICAN CITY -- Pope Paul VI prepares a plate for Francisco Morales Jr. of Ridgefield, Conn., one of five boys of an international group of boys’ choirs who were invited to have lunch with the Pontiff following the Eighth Annual World Peace Day Mass in St. Peter’s Basilica. In his World Peace Day Message, Pope Paul once again appealed to “all men of goodwill” to work for world peace but criticized nations for their arms buildup and warned that they were drifting back to uncompromising policies of the period before World War II. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (A-ROM-1A-75-DS)URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:362282
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Description:Text transcribed from caption: C-46580 PRELATES SERVE AS MEDIATORS WITH GUERRILLAS MANAGUA, Nicaragua -- Holding a briefcase believed to contain ransom money, Archbishop Gabriel Montalvo, Papal Nuncio to Nicaragua, prepares to enter the house where leftist Nicaraguan guerrillas were holding hostages. He and Archbishop Miguel Obando Bravo, S.D.B., of Managua (right, obscured by soldier), who had figured prominently in negotiations between the guerrillas and the Nicaraguan government, were part of a four-man team of volunteers used to guarantee the safe arrival in Cuba of eight guerrillas and 14 freed political prisoners. The guerrillas, members of the Sandinista Liberation Front, shot their way into a party honoring U.S. Ambassador Turner Shelton, killing the host and three guards posted outside. They threatened to kill the hostages, one by one, beginning on New Year’s Day, if their demands for $5 million ransom and the release of 18 political prisoners were not met. Archbishop Obando Bravo acted as go-between and managed to secure the release of 24 of the hostages. The government paid a $1 million ransom and released 14 political prisoners in exchange for the remaining 13 hostages. The two prelates along with the Mexican and Spanish ambassadors, then flew to Cuba with the guerrillas and freed prisoners. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (A-MAN-12D-74-DS)URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:362281
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Title:Description:Text transcribed from caption: C-46568 DOUBLES AS A DEALER LAS VEGAS -- Father Thomas Higgins, S.J., can usually be found on the campus of Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, where he is an assistant chaplain and a professor. But during the Summer and school vacations, he can be found at the Royal Inn Casino in Las Vegas, where he is a blackjack dealer. The 42-year-old Jesuit priest feels he is carrying his message to the people. “You can’t preach Christ if your experience is entirely different from that of other people,” he says. “If priests were cab drivers or bus drivers or if they took different jobs, they would be much more to all kinds of people.” Father Higgins’ customers at the casino get his good counsel, although they seldom find out that the man behind the red satin tie is a priest. “Sometimes I tell people, ‘You’re drunk. Why don’t you go home? You’re going to drop your whole load,’” he said. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (A-LA-12D-74-DS)URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:362280
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Title:Description:Text transcribed from caption: C-46567 HOLY YEAR IS INAUGURATED VATICAN CITY -- Pope Paul VI kneels at the threshold of the Holy Door and prays briefly before proceeding to the main altar in St. Peter’s Basilica to celebrate Christmas Midnight Mass. The pontiff had just ceremonially opened the Holy Door to inaugurate the Church’s 1975 Holy Year. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (A-ROM-12D-74-DS)URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:362279
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Title:Description:Text transcribed from caption: C-46566 PONTIFF OPENS HOLY DOOR VATICAN CITY -- Pope Paul VI taps three times on the Holy Door of St. Peter’s Basilica with a ceremonial silver hammer, saying prayers each time. After the third blow with the hammer, the massive bronze door was lowered to the ground by pulleys and the 1975 Holy Year was officially inaugurated. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (A-ROM-12D-74-DS)URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:362278
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Title:Description:Text transcribed from caption: C-46549 PREPARE FOR HOLY YEAR VATICAN CITY -- Vatican attendant dismantle the interior part of the Holy Door inside St. Peter’s Basilica to remove a box of medals commemorating past Holy Years from 1300 to 1950. Pope Paul VI will open the Holy Door on Christmas Eve to start the 1975 Holy Year. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (A-ROM-12C-74-DS)URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:362277
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Title:Description:Text transcribed from caption: C-46548 HANDING THE BALL OFF NOTRE DAME, Ind. -- After 11 years as head football coach of Notre Dame, Ara Parseghian hands the ball off the Dan Devine (left), former Green Bay Packers and Missouri head coach who will direct the Fighting Irish after the Orange Bowl game of New Year’s Day. Parseghian, who said he was “physically exhausted and emotionally drained,” resigned after compiling a 94-17-4 record in 11 seasons at Notre Dame. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (A-ND-12C-74-DS)URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:362276
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Title:Description:Text transcribed from caption: SUGGESTED FOR USE WITH RNS WEEK IN RELIGION FOR DEC. 20. C-46533 THE CARDINAL GIVES A PARTY NEW YORK -- “Now what was it I wanted for Christmas?” seems to be what this young lady is thinking as she attends Cardinal Terence Cooke’s annual Christmas party in New York. The cardinal hosted the party for the children of the New York Foundling Hospital and other child care programs of Catholic Charities. Cardinal Cooke personally greeted all those in attendance to wish them a blessed Christmas and to express his gratitude for their generosity to the many youngsters who benefit from the proceeds of the annual affair. The party included entertainment by comedian Sam Levenson, the cardinal sang “Love Makes the World Go Round” solo and “Come All Ye Faithful” with Julius La Rosa, and Santa Claus was on hand with gifts for the children. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO by Chris Sheridan (CS-NY-12B-74-DS)URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:362275
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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-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
