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:
Princess has happy audience.
Description:
Princess Margaret speaks to four clergymen at a community house.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:150222
Title:
Priest and 18 others arrested during abortion clinic sit-in.
Description:
The Rev. James J. Danis, a Roman Catholic priest of St. Louis, wearing a sweat shirt above, waits in a police patrol wagon after being arrested with 18 others on trespassing charges during a sit-in protest at the Regency Park Gynecological Center.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:150220
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Youth present pessimistic views.
Description:
Gabe Pressman (left), a television news commentator for NBC, moderates a panel discussion, questioning five young people on their views of the press, the state of human relations in the U.S., the work of the National Conference of Christians and Jews (NCCJ) and their general outlook on the future. Members of the panel are, from left: Billy Lazore, youngest chief of the Onondaga Indian Nation; Ann Robinson, a Catholic student at St. Joseph Hospital School of Nursing; Mark Bruzonsky, a Jewish student at Princeton University; Pamela Barrows, a Protestant who is a student at Fairleigh Dickinson University, and Angelo Nunez, a Puerto Rican student at Columbia University.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:150218
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Syrian youth's I.D. card.
Description:
This is the identity card of a 17-year-old Jewish youth who recently escaped from Syria. Diagonally across the front of the card the word "Jew" is written in red ink in Arabic. His photo, name and mother's and father's names have been covered to protect his identity and his family.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:150215
Title:
Dramatize plight of refugees.
Description:
Dressed in robes symbolizing death, members of a group called Americans for Bangla Desh carry simulated body bags during a demonstration near the United Nations in New York.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:150214
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Leaders at main German church day rally.
Description:
Prominent West German political and religious leaders participated in the main rally of the 12th German Evangelical Church Day Congress (DEKT) in Cologne. Here, from left, are West German Chancellor Ludwig Erhard; Dr. Kurt Scharf, chairman of the Council of the Evangelical Church in Germany (EKID), sponsor of the Congress; and Mayor O. Burauen of Cologne.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:150212
Title:
Prison chaplains group meets.
Description:
Catholic, Jewish and Protestant prison chaplains meet at the American Correctional Chaplains Association at Iowa State Penitentiary.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:150211
Title:
Aiding refugees in Laos.
Description:
On a hill above the refugee village of Phucum in northern Laos, the Rev. Don Scott discusses possibilities for emergency relief with a camp medic. The village, which has 4,200 Meo refugees -- almost all women and children -- has already been moved three times as fighting drew near.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:150209
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HIAS helps former North Vietnamese refugee reach U.S.
Description:
Bang Khiet Nghe, holding flowers, a 14-year-old Vietnamese refugee who had escaped to the People's Republic of China (PRC), is shown after her recent arrival in New York. Greeting Bang at John F. Kennedy International Airport are her mother, Ai Link Huynh, her three brothers, and Bruce Leimsidor, of the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society (HIAS). HIAS helped bring her to the U.S. -- marking the first time the Jewish migration agency has assisted and received a refugee directly from the PRC.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:150203
Title:
Young refugee finds home.
Description:
Hans Czipri, a young refugee from Hungary.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:150182
Title:
Mother Teresa.
Description:
Mother Teresa holding a child.
Creator:
Religious News Service. (publisher)
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., Catholic Church., Teresa, Mother, Saint, 1910-1997.
Topics:
Christian women saints., Malnutrition in children--India.
Geographic subjects:
India.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:150171
Title:
Pope renews plea for nuclear ban.
Description:
Pope Paul VI told a general audience that the atomic bombing of Hiroshima was an "outrage against civilization" and renewed his plea to all nations to ban nuclear weapons.
Creator:
Wide World Photos, Inc. (publisher)
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., Catholic Church., VI, Paul, Pope, 1897-1978.
Topics:
Nuclear disarmament., Antinuclear movement.
Geographic subjects:
Castel Gandolfo (Italy)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:150168
Title:
Violence at Paris demonstration.
Description:
Helmeted policemen club fallen demonstrators during a brief but violent incident at the Place d'Italie, on the Paris Left Bank, Saturday near the end of a demonstration called for to support the anti-nuclear movement of Brittany against the construction of a nuclear plant at Plogoff. Some 2,000 attended the demonstration. Two demonstrators and three policemen were injured during the incident.
Creator:
Wide World Photos, Inc. (publisher)
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives.
Topics:
Antinuclear movement--France--Paris., Nuclear power plants--France--Plogoff., Demonstrations--France--Paris., Police--France--Paris., Police and mass media--France--Paris.
Geographic subjects:
Paris (France), Plogoff (France)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:150156
Title:
Young Vietnam survivor.
Description:
A frightened child -- his slain mother by his side -- pleads for help as he looks up at a U.S. marine in a bomb shelter of a South Vietnamese village.
Creator:
Wide World Photos, Inc. (publisher)
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives.
Topics:
Vietnam War, 1961-1975--Casualties., Children of war casualties--Vietnam.
Geographic subjects:
Vietnam.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:150132
Title:
Leaders at main German church day rally.
Description:
Prominent West German political and religious leaders participated in the main rally of the 12th German Evangelical Church Day Congress (DEKT) in Cologne. Here, from left, are West German Chancellor Ludwig Erhard; Dr. Kurt Scharf, chairman of the Council of the Evangelical Church in Germany (EKID), sponsor of the Congress; and Mayor O. Burauen of Cologne.
Creator:
Voss, Klaus. (photographer)
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., Deutscher Evangelischer Kirchentag (12th : 1965 : Cologne, Germany), Erhard, Ludwig., Scharf, Kurt., Burauen, O.
Topics:
Religion and politics--Germany--Cologne., Protestants--Germany--Cologne., Catholics--Germany--Cologne.
Geographic subjects:
Cologne (Germany)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:150123
Title:
Sudan's forgotten war.
Description:
The area of Sudan is about half the size of Europe and for the last fifteen years the Arabs of the north have been fighting a prolonged and unpublicised civil war against the Anyanyas a terrorist group whose size and numbers cannot be guessed at. The terrorists who inhabit the wilder parts of the Southern Sudan around Juba say they are fighting against a regime that is determined to wipe out and which gives all its money to the already affluent North. Their fifteen year fight has undermined the already shakey Sudanese economy because wars are expensive things to wage. Here a patrol in the South returns to their Russian-built helicopter.
Creator:
Lomax, David, 1938-2014. (photographer), Camera Press Ltd. (London, England) (publisher)
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives.
Topics:
Military helicopters--Sudan., Soldiers--Sudan.
Geographic subjects:
Sudan--History--Civil War, 1955-1972., Sudan--Politics and government--1956-1985.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:150120
Title:
Soviet Jewish emigrants enjoy first Seder in freedom.
Description:
Soviet Jewish emigrants, awaiting visas from western nations, enjoy a Seder demonstration in Rome recently, sponsored by the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC), as part of a "Yiddishkeit" program to teach Jewish tradition and culture to the participants.
Creator:
American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee. (publisher)
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee.
Topics:
Jews, Soviet--Italy--Rome., Jews--Migrations., Seder.
Geographic subjects:
Rome (Italy)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:150105
Title:
Castro meets Cardinal.
Description:
Cuban Premier Fidel Castro is greeted by Cardinal Raul Silva Henriquez of Santiago during the Cuban leader's recent visit to Chile.
Creator:
Wide World Photos, Inc. (publisher)
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., Catholic Church. Archdiocese of Santiago (Chile). Archbishop (1961-1983 : Silva Henríquez), Castro, Fidel, 1926-2016., Silva Henríquez, Raúl
Topics:
Communism and Christianity--Catholic Church.
Geographic subjects:
Santiago (Chile), Cuba--Foreign relations--1959-1990.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:150099
Title:
Aiding refugees in Laos.
Description:
On a hill above the refugee village of Phucum in northern Laos, the Rev. Don Scott discusses possibilities for emergency relief with a camp medic. The village, which has 4,200 Meo refugees -- almost all women and children -- has already been moved three times as fighting drew near.
Creator:
Bray, Bill. (photographer)
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., World Vision Canada., Scott, Don.
Topics:
Vietnam War, 1961-1975--Laos., Church work with refugees--Laos., Hmong (Asian people)--Laos., Refugee camps--Laos.
Geographic subjects:
Laos--Foreign relations--Vietnam., Laos--History--20th century.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:150057
Title:
Penalty.
Description:
Martha Doherty, 19, hangs from a post after her head was shaved and she was tarred and feathered -- a penalty for dating a British soldier -- by a group of women in Londonderry's Roman Catholic Bogside district.
Creator:
United Press International. (publisher)
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., Doherty, Martha.
Topics:
Humiliation--Northern Ireland--Derry., Head shaving--Northern Ireland--Derry., Catholics--Northern Ireland--Derry.
Geographic subjects:
Derry (Northern Ireland), Northern Ireland--History--1968-1998.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:150051

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