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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Title:
American priest leaves China.
Description:
Portrait of Father Armand Proulx, who was recently released by the Chinese Communists.
Creator:
De Santerre, Daniele. (photographer)
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., Catholic Church--Clergy--China., Proulx, Armand, 1904-1998.
Topics:
Communism--China., Political prisoners--China., Persecution--China.
Geographic subjects:
Hong Kong., China.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:151570
Title:
Released Italian Bishop in hospital.
Description:
Italian Bishop Alfonso Ferroni is shown in his hospital bed where he was taken from Red-China-Hong-Kong border after staggering up to barrier.
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., Franciscans., Catholic Church--Bishops--China--Hubei Sheng., Ferroni, Alfonso Maria Corrado, 1892-1966.
Topics:
Communism and Christianity--Catholic Church., Communism--China., Political prisoners--China., Political prisoners--Health and hygiene--China., Persecution--China.
Geographic subjects:
Hong Kong., China.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:148520
Title:
Reds free emancipated Italian Bishop.
Description:
Bishop Alfonso Maria Corrado Ferroni, O.F.M. is released after imprisonment in Communist China.
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., Franciscans., Catholic Church--Bishops--China--Hubei Sheng., Ferroni, Alfonso Maria Corrado, 1892-1966.
Topics:
Communism and Christianity--Catholic Church., Communism--China., Political prisoners--China., Persecution--China.
Geographic subjects:
Hong Kong., China.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:148469
Title:
Chinese Reds free women missionaries.
Description:
Dorothy May Middleton and Sarah Lee Perkins read letters and cables from friends after their release from Communist China.
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of Foreign Missions., American Mission to Lepers., Middleton, Dorothy May., Perkins, Sarah Lee.
Topics:
Missionaries--China., Women missionaries--China., Communism--China., Political prisoners--China., Women political prisoners--China., Persecution--China.
Geographic subjects:
Hong Kong., China.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:148328

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