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Description:Text transcribed from caption: P-46550 CAPITAL NATIVITY SCENE RISES AGAIN WASHINGTON, D.C. -- The Rev. Herbert Fitzpatrick (right) of the First Baptist Church, Riverdale, Md., and Vaughn Barkdoll of the American Christian Heritage Association of Greenbelt, Md., dedicate a Nativity Scene near the Ellipse in Washington. Located adjacent to the annual Pageant of Peace display, the Nativity Scene was the subject of a suit a year ago. Sponsored by the National Park Service, the suit resulted in a court decision banning the manger scene, citing “excessive government entanglement with religion.” The Nativity Scene was erected by the American Christian Heritage Association, which sponsored it last year. This year they were given a permit by the park service. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (RN-WAS-12C-74-DS)URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:362300
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Description:Text transcribed from caption: P-46543 MISSIONARY DEPORTED BY KOREA SEOUL -- The Rev. George Ogle, a United Methodist missionary, waves as he boards a plane in Seoul after he was ordered deported from South Korea for criticizing the regime of President Park Chung Hee. Forced to leave his wife and four children behind, the 45-year-old native of Pennsylvania was placed on a California-bound Korean jetliner by police. Deportation was ordered when the missionary, who had been in South Korea for 20 years, refused to retract comments critical of the Park government for its arrests of students, intellectuals and clergy who asked for a restoration of democracy. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (A-SEO-12C-74-DS)URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:362299
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Description:Text transcribed from caption: O-46557 CYPRUS CHURCH TURNED INTO MOSQUE KYRENIA, Cyprus, -- Reproduced here is a page from the Oct. 12, 1974, edition of the Turkish daily newspaper, “Gunaydin,” published in Istanbul, which shows a photograph of Turkish soldiers praying in the Greek Orthodox chapel of Panayia Glykiotissa, near Kyrenia, Cyprus. The chapel was turned into “a namaz (prayer) house” or Moslem mosque following the Turkish invasion of Cyprus. Turkey has reportedly forbidden Christian worship services in the part of the island held by its troops. A World Council of Churches official reported recently that the church has now been locked and assurances given that it will not be reconverted into a mosque. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (GZC-ATH-12D-74-DS)URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:362298
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Description:Text transcribed from caption: J-46653 ISRAELI OFFICIAL HONORED BY NCCJ NEW YORK -- Dr. David Hyatt (center), president of the National Conference of Christians and Jews (NCCJ), presents a citation to Moshe Kol (right), one of the founders of the State of Israel and its minister of tourism since 1965, during a reception in Mr. Kol’s honor at NCCJ headquarters in New York. Michael Pragai, who since November has been advisor on church relations in North America of the Consulate-General of Israel, looks on. The NCCJ honored the Israeli official for “outstanding contributions in promoting justice, amity, and cooperation among people of all faiths, as one of the founders and officials of the State of Israel, for courageous championship of the rights of religious minorities in Israel, for enhancing and protecting the Holy Land religious sits for Christians, Muslims, and Jews.” Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO by John Lei (JL-NY-1D-75-DS)URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:362297
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Description:Text transcribed from caption: J-46643 ALLON MEETS WITH DEFENSE SECRETARY WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Israeli Foreign Minister Yigal Allon (left) meets with Secretary of Defense James Schlesinger at the Pentagon. Mr. Allon, who also met with President Ford and Secretary of State Kissinger and briefly with Soviet Ambassador Anatoly Dobrynin while in Washington, expressed his country’s dismay over the Soviet Union’s rejection of a 1972 trade agreement with the U.S., an agreement which had been tied to the emigration of Soviet Jews. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (B-WAS-1C-75-DS)URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:362296
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Title:Description:Text transcribed from caption: J-46642 BORDER PATROL BELOW MT. HERMON -- Three Israeli troopers, carrying U.S.-made M-16 rifles, patrol a security path along the border with Lebanon below Mt. Hermon. A miniature war against infiltrators keeps patrols like this one busy. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (A-TLV-1C-74-DS)URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:362295
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Title:Description:Text transcribed from caption: J-46638 PANOVS PRACTICE PHILADELPHIA -- Galina and Valery Panov, the ballet stars who were allowed to emigrate from the Soviet Union last year, practice for their upcoming American dancing debut in Philadelphia. Their performance had to be postponed to Feb. 4 due to a muscle pull suffered by Valery. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (A-PHI-1C-75-DS)URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:362294
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Title:Description:Text transcribed from caption: J-46605 ANTI-GUERRILLA TRAINING SOMEWHERE IN ISRAEL -- Schoolgirls, their fingers on the triggers of U.S.-made M-1 rifles, go through anti-guerrilla training at an army base somewhere in Israel. All 17 and 18 year old students are given a three-day course in weaponry, explosives identification and how to react in case of Arab guerrilla attacks. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (B-TEL-1B-75-DS)URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:362293
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Description:Text transcribed from caption: J-46602 REFORM JUDAISM PRODUCES COMMENTARY ON TORAH NEW YORK -- Rabbi W. Gunther Plaut of Holy Blossom Temple, Toronto, examines Volume I of the first commentary on the Torah ever to be produced by Reform Judaism in North America. Done under the auspices of the Union of American Hebrew Congregations, the Commentary on Genesis took four years to produce. Rabbi Plaut wrote the commentary with the assistance of Professors Stanley Gevirtz and William W. Hallo of Yale University and Matitiahu Tsevat of the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion. Although every program of Jewish education teaches Torah, few texts combine the elements of Hebrew, translation and commentary in the manner of the new work. Each book of the Torah is divided into six sections -- an introductory note, the original Hebrew, the new translation of the Jewish Publication Society, a brief commentary on the text with a discussion of the section’s major theme or themes, and a section of “Gleanings.” The gleanings are quotations and excerpts from a wide variety of sources, including the Koran and the writings of such literary figures as Shakespeare and John Milton. “This commentary takes the religious approach,” Rabbi Plaut said. “It recognizes the touch of the Divine, but it also takes cognizance of the latest scientific research. It represents the teaching tradition of Israel.” He explained that “our commentary disagrees with traditional interpreters over divine origin and Mosaic authorship, but it does agree with them on treating the text as it is, a unified whole, for it was approached this way by many generations and, in this way, it has made its impact on history.” Volume I of the commentary, published Jan. 15, will be available at $12.50 in hardcover and $7.50 in paperback. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (A-NY-1B-75-DS)URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:362292
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Description:Text transcribed from caption: J-46546 SENATORS SEE UN HURT BY PLO VOTE WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Seven of the 71 Senators who sent a letter to President Ford saying that United Nations support for the Palestine Liberation Organization undermined the world body as well as U.S. foreign policy discuss the letter during a Capitol Hill news conference. From left to right are Senators Clifford Case (R-N.J.), Henry Jackson (D-Wash.), Jacob Javits (R-N.Y.), Hubert Humphrey (D-Minn.), Richard Schweiker (R-Pa.), Abraham Ribicoff (D-Conn.) and Howard Metzenbaum (D-Ohio). The letter said the recent U.N. events “dramatize the need for the United States to take the lead in organizing our friends and allies to resist political and economic blackmail in the future. We do not believe that a policy of appeasement will be any more successful now than it proved to be in the nineteen-thirties.” Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (A-WAS-12C-74-DS)URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:362291
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Title:Description:Text transcribed from caption: J-46544 GOLDA MEIR ADDRESSES UJA NEW YORK -- Former Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir is flanked by Frank R. Lautenberg (left), the new general chairman of the United Jewish Appeal, and Paul Zuckerman, the UJA’s new president, during the playing of the Israeli and American national anthems at the annual UJA Conference in New York. In an extemporaneous address, Mrs. Meir told the 2,500 people attending the Conference dinner that peace in the Middle East does not depend on the actions and attitudes of her country. She declared that peace “does not depend on us, it depends upon our neighbors, and one can never tell what they will do next.” Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO By Chris Sheridan (CS-NY-12C-74-DS)URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:362290
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Title:Description:Text transcribed from caption: C-46652 DEMONSTRATING FOR LIFE ALBANY, N.Y. -- A member of the Albany chapter of the New York State Right to Life Organization leads others in praying the rosary as demonstrators walk in front of the New York State Capitol in Albany. The demonstration was held in sub-zero temperatures. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (A-ALB-1D-75-DS)URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:362289
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Description:Text transcribed from caption: C-46641 HITS PHILIPPINES ‘RESTRICTIVE’ PROBATION MARYKNOLL, N.Y. -- A U.S. Roman Catholic missionary to the Philippines, who recently escaped deportation but was placed on “restrictive” probation in Manila for three years, has called his situation “unjust,” according to a report from Maryknoll headquarters. Father Edward Gerlock, M.M., a missionary in the Philippines for some 12 years, said, “I feel like a man who expects to die but only gets a broken leg. But I wouldn’t advocate getting broken legs as a good thing.” In October 1973, the priest was arrested in Mindanao and charged with being critical of the government’s martial law policies and giving support to the illegal Federation of Free Farmers. During the 16 months since his arrest, a period in which he was placed in the custody of his superior in Manila, church leaders throughout the Philippines rallied to his cause. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (C-MNY-1C-75-DS)URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:362288
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Description:Text transcribed from caption: C-46639 IDAHO ‘DISSIDENT’ CATHOLICS APPEAL COURT RULING COEUR D’ALENE, Idaho -- A group of dissident Catholics, who reject Pope Paul and the teachings of Vatican II and who now live an austere, devotional life in Northern Idaho, has appealed a court ruling in Ohio awarding $96,000 in judgements to two men who claimed the movement alienated their wives. The appeal was filed by lawyers for Our Lady of Fatima Crusade, which is based at the farm-centered City of Mary near Rathdrum, Idaho, about 20 miles northwest of Coeur d’Alene. It asked that the judgements against the Crusade and its leader, the non-accredited Bishop Francis Schuckardt (right photo), be set aside. Two brothers, Joseph and Henry Radecki of Toledo, Ohio, won the judgements after claiming in a suit in Lucas County (Ohio) court that the Crusade and Bishop Schuckardt alienated the affections of their wives by inducing them to leave their husbands and join the Idaho Crusade. The Crusade is often mistakenly linked with the Blue Army of Our Lady of Fatima, based in Washington, N.J. According to the local Coeur d’Alene newspaper, Bishop Schuckardt was once international secretary of the Blue Army, but broke away and founded the Fatima Crusade in 1967. A spokesman for the Blue Army said that Bishop Schuckardt’s claim of having been international secretary of the Blue Army is “false,” and that he worked for the Blue Army briefly as a developer of Blue Army “cells” around the country, but was eventually “fired.” He said that Bishop Schuckardt was a layman and not a priest, and had no idea how the Crusade leader received the title of bishop. Bishop Sylvester Treinen of Boise, whose diocese encompasses all of Idaho, has declared that because the Fatima Crusaders reject Pope Paul they can no longer be considered members of the Roman Catholic Church. At left, women members of the Crusade, dressed in long peasant-type costumes, stand and kneel outside the church in the City of Mary. Crusade members reportedly show special devotion to the Virgin Mary and follow literally the contents of the “Fatima message,” and strenuously object to the use of the vernacular in the Mass. They are strongly anti-Communist, reject public schools, discourage recreational activities, stress spiritual development, operate their own “Catholic” schools, and encourage members to become “sisters” and “brothers.” Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (RVJ-IDA-1C-75-DS)URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:362287
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Description:Text transcribed from caption: C-46622 POPE’S MESSAGE GIVEN TO BUDDHIST PREMIER COLOMBO, Sri Lanka -- Archbishop Carlo Curis, Apostolic Delegate to Sri Lanka (Ceylon), gives a copy of Pope Paul’s World Peace Day Message to Mrs. Sirimavo Bandaranaike, the Buddhist Prime Minister of the island nation. Throughout the world, copies of the Pontiff’s New Year’s message -- which appealed to “all men of goodwill” to work for world peace -- were given to national leaders by Vatican representatives. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (KJS-COL-1C-75-DS)URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:362286
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Description:Text transcribed from caption: C-46614 FIRST WOMAN AMBASSADOR TO THE VATICAN VATICAN CITY -- In a precedent-shattering move, Pope Paul has accepted the nomination of a woman as an ambassador to the Vatican. The pontiff agreed to receive the credentials of Bernadette Olowo, 27, named by President Idi Amin as Uganda’s envoy to the Holy See. The Pope’s decision breaks what is believed to be a 900-year-old unwritten tradition barring women from becoming official representatives at the Vatican. Miss Olowo, a secretary in Uganda’s embassy in Bonn, will also serve as Ambassador to West Germany, where she will reside. Roman Catholics in Uganda number about 3.5 million out of a total population of 10,764,000. Church-state relations have been erratic under the regime of Muslim President Amin, who has shown both benevolence and hostility toward the Church. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (A-WG-1C-75-DS)URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:362285
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Title:Description:Text transcribed from caption: C-46607 CHARGED IN DEATH OF FETUS BOSTON -- Dr. Kenneth C. Edelin (right), a Boston City Hospital physician charged with manslaughter in the death of an aborted fetus, looks on as his attorney, William Homans, talks with reporters outside Suffolk Superior Court in Boston where his trial is taking place. Dr. Edelin is charged with manslaughter for allegedly assaulting and killing a fetus 24 to 28 weeks old. The case could produce a potential landmark decision on the viability of a fetus and when it becomes entitled to legal protection, a key issue left unresolved in the U.S. Supreme Court’s 1973 decision. The Supreme Court ruled that state governments can forbit only abortions “subsequent to viability.” However, it would only state “viability is usually placed at about seven months (28 weeks), but may occur earlier, even at 24 weeks.” Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (B-BOS-1B-75-DS)URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:362284
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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
