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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Ecumenical organist.
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Text transcribed from caption: PC-45137 ECUMENICAL ORGANIST ANN ARBOR, Mich. -- Sister Lorraine Therese Miller plays the organ, which is not unusual for a Roman Catholic nun, but she does it in an ecumenical way. For almost two years she has served as organist at the Glacier Way United Methodist church in Ann Arbor. "Playing at Glacier Way is my way of acting out the spirit of the ecumenical movement," she says. Before coming to Ann Arbor to study for her doctorate at the University of Michigan's School of Music, Sister Lorraine was an organist at an Episcopal cathedral in Portland, Ore. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (A-DET-1C-74-DS)
Creator:
Wide World Photos, Inc. (publisher)
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., Miller, Lorraine Therese, Sister., Catholic Church--Relations--Methodist Church (U.S.), Glacier Way United Methodist Church (Ann Arbor, Mich.), University of Michigan. School of Music., Methodist Church (U.S.)--Relations--Catholic Church.
Topics:
Nuns--Michigan--Ann Arbor., Organists--Michigan--Ann Arbor., Women organists--Michigan--Ann Arbor., Ecumenical movement.
Geographic subjects:
Ann Arbor (Mich.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:362535
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At tribute for her husband.
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Text transcribed from caption: PC-45136 AT TRIBUTE FOR HER HUSBAND ATLANTA -- Mrs. Coretta Scott King, widow of slain civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King, holds a program bearing a picture of Dr. King on its cover as she and members of her family attended a wreath laying ceremony at Dr. King's crypt in Atlanta. Mrs. King led some 20,000 people in a parade through the streets of Atlanta to mark the 45th anniversary of Dr. King's birth. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (A-ATL-1C-74-DS)
Creator:
United Press International. (publisher)
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., King, Coretta Scott, 1927-2006., King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968.
Topics:
African American civil rights workers--United States., African American clergy--United States., Civil rights workers--United States., Spouses of clergy--Georgia--Atlanta., Memorial rites and ceremonies--Georgia--Atlanta.
Geographic subjects:
Atlanta (Ga.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:362534
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Churchmen run car pool.
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Text transcribed from caption: PC-45133 CHURCHMEN RUN CAR POOL MONTCLAIR, N.J. -- It is a typical weekday morning at Watchung Plaza in Montclair, N.J. -- the "rendezvous point" for commuters who ride the car pool to the Interchurch Center in New York City. The Rev. J. Martin Bailey, editor of A.D. magazine, stands on the sidewalk dispatching the 30 or so church executives and secretaries into the three station wagons owned by the pool. Dr. Tracey Jones, a United Methodist official, prepares to drive one of the cars on the 22-mile ride to work. So begins another morning operation of the Montclair Riverside Car Pool, Inc., one of the oldest and most successful car pools in the area. Members of the pool buy one share of corporation stock (currently valued at $95, up from the initial $1 price offering in 1962 when the group became incorporated). The monthly charge is $30 a person, which is estimated to be less than half the cost of using public transportation for the round trip. Mr. Bailey, whose magazine is published jointly by the United Church of Christ and the United Presbyterian Church, said the Interchurch Center has a large number of car pools and first priority is given to the pools for parking facilities. The Montclair car pool believes that by operating three station wagons -- instead of the 25 or more individual cars -- they are conserving more than 500 gallons of gasoline a week. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO by Frank A. Kostyu (FAK-NJ-1C-74-DS)
Creator:
Kostyu, Frank A. (publisher)
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., Interchurch Center (New York, N.Y.), Bailey, J. Martin., Jones, Tracey., Methodist Church (U.S.)--Clergy.
Topics:
Car pools--New Jersey--Montclair., Ridesharing--New Jersey--Montclair., Energy conservation--New Jersey--Montclair., Stock ownership--New Jersey--Montclair.
Geographic subjects:
Montclair (N.J.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:362533
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Church groups plan proxy action.
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Text transcribed from caption: PC-45116 CHURCH GROUPS PLAN PROXY ACTION NEW YORK -- The spring's round of annual corporation stockholders' meetings will see an increased number of proxy resolutions brought by church groups challenging corporation policies in Southern Africa and Guinea-Bissau. Stockholder challenges against 20 corporations were announced in New York by the Church Project on United States Investments in Southern Africa. At the press conference announcing the action were, from left to right: Mustafa Sam of the Organization of African Unity; Dr. Donald Wilson, chairman of the Church Project; the Rev. Sterling Cary, president of the National Council of Churches; Father Michael Daniel, superior general of the Franciscan Friars of the Atonement, and Timothy Smith, project director for the Interfaith Committee on Church Responsibility in Investments. Supporters of the project, which filed its first challenges in 1972, have increased from five denominations and the National Council of Churches last year to nine denominations and the NCC participating this year. For the first time the project is being supported by a Catholic agency -- the Atonement Friars. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO by Chris Sheridan (CS-NY-1B-74-DS)
Creator:
Sheridan, Chris. (photographer)
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., Organization of African Unity., Sam, Mustafa., Wilson, Donald., Cary, W. (William) Sterling., National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America., Catholic Church--Clergy., Franciscans., Daniel, Micheli Anthony., Smith, Timothy.
Topics:
Stockholders--New York (State)--New York., Capitalists and financiers--New York (State)--New York., International economic relations., Corporations--Investor relations--New York (State)--New York., International business enterprises--Religious aspects, Business--Religious aspects--Christianity.
Geographic subjects:
New York (N.Y.), Guinea-Bissau--Economic conditions--1974-, Africa, Southern--Economic conditions--1975-1994.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:362531
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Ecuador's Shangri-La.
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Text transcribed from caption: PC-45112 ECUADOR'S SHANGRI-LA VILCABAMBA, ECUADOR -- Four senior Vilcabambans share a joke in the town's central plaza. The quartet members, whose average age is 117 years, are, from left: Gabriel Erazo, 120 years old; Michael Quezcela, a relative youngster at 103; Miguel Carpio, 123, and Abelino Armijos, 125. Scientists studying the Vilcabambans attribute their longevity to environment and diet. The valley is 5,000 feet high and has a nearly constant temperature of 72 degrees. These conditions keep the valley free of the tropical fauna that thrives in the surrounding lowland jungle. There are no snakes, no spiders, no dangerous animals of any kind -- not even mosquitoes. Their diet is low in animal fats and consists mainly of cheese, fruit and vegetables. Their daily calorie intake is 1,700, about half the consumption of an American eating three full meals a day. This gives them plenty of nutrition without obesity. Combined with a relative absence of stress, these conditions have created a place where the scourges of cancer, heart disease, mental illness and ulcers are virtually unknown. (Third of Three Photos, SEE ALSO RNS PHOTOS PC-45110 & 11) Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (PP-1B-74-DS)
Creator:
DMGT (Firm) (publisher)
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., Erazo, Gabriel., Quezcela, Michael., Carpio, Miguel., Armijos, Abelino.
Topics:
Centenarians--Ecuador--Vilcabamba., Food habits--Ecuador--Vilcabamba., Mental health--Nutritional aspects--Ecuador--Vilcabamba.
Geographic subjects:
Vilcabamba (Ecuador), Loja (Ecuador : Province), Xianggelila Xian (China)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:362530
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Archbishop Ramsey nears retirement.
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Text transcribed from caption: PC-45104 ARCHBISHOP RAMSEY NEARS RETIREMENT LONDON -- Archbishop Michael Ramsey, whose retirement as Anglican Primate of England is expected to be announced within a few months, will go down in history as her Church's greatest seeker for Church unity. Archbishop Ramsey will be 70 on Nov. 14, 1974. He was consecrated Archbishop of Canterbury in 1961 and in the space of those 13 years he has strived harder than anybody to bring the Churches together. Three particular strands of unity wove their way through his life -- linking the Church of England with British Methodism, with the Orthodox Churches and with the Roman Catholic Church. Although he suffered a setback when, in 1969 and 1972, a plan of union with Methodism failed to pass in the Church of England, his efforts at achieving closer ties with Orthodoxy and Roman Catholicism have been highly successful. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (R-1B-74-DS)
Creator:
Religious News Service. (publisher)
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., Church of England--Bishops., Ramsey, Michael, 1904-1988., Church of England--Relations--Catholic Church., Church of England--Relations--Methodist Church (Great Britain), Church of England--Relations--Orthodox Eastern Church.
Topics:
Retirement--Planning., Bishops--Appointment, call, and election., Retirement--Religious aspects--Christianity., Bishops--England--London.
Geographic subjects:
London (England)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:362529
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First Family attends church.
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Text transcribed from caption: PC-45100 FIRST FAMILY ATTENDS CHURCH SAN CLEMENTE, Calif. -- President and Mrs. Nixon and their daughter, Tricia Nixon Cox, chat with the Rev. Joseph Stephens after attending services at the San Clemente Presbyterian church near the Western White House. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (A-SCM-1B-74-DS)
Creator:
Wide World Photos, Inc. (publisher)
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., Nixon, Richard M. (Richard Milhous), 1913-1994., Nixon, Pat, 1912-1993., Cox, Patricia Nixon, 1946-, Stephens, Joseph., San Clemente Presbyterian Church (San Clemente, Calif.)
Topics:
Church attendance--California--San Clemente., Presidents--United States., Presidents' spouses--United States., Children of presidents--United States.
Geographic subjects:
San Clemente (Calif.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:362528
Title:
"Old North" anniversary is ecumenical.
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Text transcribed from caption: PC-45099 'OLD NORTH' ANNIVERSARY IS ECUMENICAL BOSTON -- Leaders of Boston's Roman Catholic, Protestant and Jewish communities, along with public officials, joined in a unique "Ecumenical Service of Thanksgiving" commemorating the 250th anniversary of Boston's historic Christ church, popularly known as "Old North." Participants included (left to right) retired Episcopal Bishop Frederic C. Lawrence, Roman Catholic Cardinal Humberto Medeiros of Boston, Bishop John W. Burgess of the Episcopal Diocese of Massachusetts, the Rev. Robert W. Golledge, Vicar of Old North, and Presiding Bishop John E. Hines of the Episcopal Church. The theme of the service was Old North's "Years of Freedom, Years of God," and it launched the church's observance of the national bicentennial. It was in Christ Church's slender steeple that Paul Revere sighted the lanterns that warned of the approach of British redcoats on April 18, 1775. During the service, Cardinal Medeiros read a cable from Cardinal Jan Willebrands, head of the Vatican's Secretariat for Promoting Christian Unity, expressing Pope Paul's best wishes and blessings to those present, as well as his thanks to the cardinal for participating in the ecumenical service. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (CB-BOS-1B-74-DS)
Creator:
The Pilot Photos (Boston, Mass.) (publisher)
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., Second Church (Boston, Mass.), Lawrence, Frederic Cunningham., Episcopal Church--Bishops., Episcopal Church. Diocese of Massachusetts., Catholic Church--Bishops., Catholic Church. Archdiocese of Boston (Mass.), Medeiros, Humberto Sousa, 1915-1983., Burgess, John, 1909-2003., Golledge, Robert W., Hines, John E. (John Elbridge), 1910-1997., Revere, Paul, 1735-1818., Willebrands, Johannes., Catholic Church. Secretariatus ad Christianorum Unitatem Fovendam., Catholic Church--Relations--Judaism.
Topics:
Judaism--Relations--Christianity., Christianity and other religions--Judaism., Judaism--Relations--Catholic Church., Interfaith worship--Massachusetts--Boston., American Revolution Bicentennial, 1976.
Geographic subjects:
Boston (Mass.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:362527
Title:
Who's no. 1?
Description:
Text transcribed from caption: PC-45093 WHO'S NO. 1? NEW ORLEANS -- Notre Dame's Fighting Irish leave little doubt as to which team they feel is best in the country as they hoist coach Ara Parseghian atop their shoulders following their thrilling 24-23 victory over Alabama in the Sugar Bowl. The New Year's Eve battle between the two undefeated, untied teams took place in New Orleans and resulted in what may have been the greatest game in college football history. With the victory and the subsequent picking of Notre Dame as the nation's No. 1 college football team by sports writers, Parseghian, a 50-year-old Armenian Presbyterian, joined two of the greatest of coaches, the late Knute Rockne and Frank Leahy, among the hierarchy of Notre Dame immortals. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (B-NO-1A-74-DS)
Creator:
United Press International. (publisher)
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., Notre Dame Fighting Irish (Football team), University of Notre Dame--Faculty., Parseghian, Ara, 1923-2017., Sugar Bowl (Football game), Alabama Crimson Tide (Football team), Rockne, Knute, 1888-1931., Leahy, Frank, 1908-1973.
Topics:
College athletes--Louisiana--New Orleans., Football players--Louisiana--New Orleans., Football coaches --Louisiana--New Orleans.
Geographic subjects:
New Orleans (La.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:362526
Title:
Neighboring shrines.
Description:
Text transcribed from caption: PC-45092 NEIGHBORING SHRINES RELEASE: Weekend of Jan. 11, 1974 with RNS 'Week In Religion' Two of the world's major religious shrines are neighbors in the Old City of Jerusalem. The Western Wall (foreground), a small remnant of the fortifications that once surrounded the magnificent Temple of Herod, still stands as a symbol of Jewish agony. Since Byzantine times, Jewish custom has directed the faithful to pray daily at the Wall, and their mournful " chants and prayers prompted visitors to call it the Wailing Wall. It is Judaism's most sacred shrine. Above it is a broad raised platform, called by Arabs the Haram Ash-Sharif, the Noble Sanctuary-- the actual site of the Herodian Temple, built, according to Jewish tradition, upon the rock where Abraham had been prepared to sacrifice his son Isaac. Surrounding the top of this scarred and pitted rock and dominating the walled square mile of Old Jerusalem is the seventh century glittering gold and mosaic Mosque of Omar, better known as the Dome of the Rock. The octagonal structure has special meaning for Muslims -- it is Islam's third holiest shrine after Mecca and Medina -- because of the famous tale of the Prophet Mohammed's Night Journey to Jerusalem, and his ascent to the Seventh Heaven from the pinnacle of the Temple's sacred rock. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (C-NY-1A-73-DS)
Creator:
Israeli Tourists NYC (New York, N.Y.) (publisher)
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., Qubbat al-Ṣakhrah (Mosque : Jerusalem)
Topics:
Judaism--Relations--Christianity., Christianity and other religions--Judaism., Judaism--Relations--Islam., Christianity and other religions--Islam., Islamic shrines--Jerusalem--Yerushalayim ha-ʻatiḳah., Jewish shrines--Jerusalem--Yerushalayim ha-ʻatiḳah., Christian shrines--Jerusalem--Yerushalayim ha-ʻatiḳah.
Geographic subjects:
Yerushalayim ha-ʻatiḳah (Jerusalem), Temple Mount (Jerusalem)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:362525
Title:
Jerusalem's Old City.
Description:
Text transcribed from caption: PC-45091 JERUSALEM'S OLD CITY RELEASE: Weekend of Jan. 11, 1974 with RNS 'Week In Religion' A little, very old walled enclave that sits on a mountaintop amid the ancient hills of Judea may well prove to be the crux of today's Middle East peace. Known as the Old City of Jerusalem, its welter of cramped streets and narrow lanes wind and twist over ground that has been saturated with the blood of Israelite, Egyptian, Aramean, Assyrian, Babylonian, Persian, Greek, Roman, Arab, Seljuk, Crusader, Mameluke, Ottoman, British, Jordanian and Israeli. For the 21-acre enclosure, which is all there was of Jerusalem a hundred years ago, embraces cherished shrines of the world's three major monotheistic religions -- Judaism, Christianity, and Islam -- whose conflicting claims over the centuries have made it a chief focus of bitter and protracted contest of arms, one that has yet to be fully resolved. This aerial view of the Old City looks east, from the Jaffa Gate and the Citadel (Herod's Palace) in the foreground to the Mount of Olives and the Garden of Gethsemane in the background, beyond the walls. Within the walls are the octagonal Mosque of Omar, better known as the Dome of the Rock (upper right center), Islam's third holiest shrine after Mecca and Medina; the Western or Wailing Wall (facing open area just to the right of the Dome of the Rock), a small remnant of the fortifications that once surrounded the Temple of Herod and Judaism's holiest shrine. The single most important Christian shrine in the Old City of Jerusalem is the Church of the Holy Sepulcher (domed structure at far left center), built in the fourth century by the Emperor Constantine on the traditional site of Jesus' crucifixion, burial, and resurrection. Just to the left of this Church winds the Via Dolorosa, traditionally regarded as the route Jesus walked to the Crucifixion. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (C-NY-1A- 74-DS)
Creator:
Israeli Tourists NYC (New York, N.Y.) (publisher)
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., Herod’s Palace (Jerusalem), Qubbat al-Ṣakhrah (Mosque : Jerusalem), Church of the Holy Sepulchre (Jerusalem), Constantine I, Emperor of Rome, -337., Jesus Christ--Crucifixion.
Topics:
Judaism--Relations--Christianity., Christianity and other religions--Judaism., Judaism--Relations--Islam., Christianity and other religions--Islam., Islamic shrines--Jerusalem--Yerushalayim ha-ʻatiḳah., Jewish shrines--Jerusalem--Yerushalayim ha-ʻatiḳah., Christian shrines--Jerusalem--Yerushalayim ha-ʻatiḳah.
Geographic subjects:
Yerushalayim ha-ʻatiḳah (Jerusalem)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:362524
Title:
"He is not here; He has risen."
Description:
Text transcribed from caption: PC-45084 'HE IS NOT HERE; HE HAS RISEN' (SUGGESTED FOR USE IN EASTER ISSUES) Mary Magdalene, Mary the mother of James, and Salome encounter an angel in Jesus' tomb on the first Easter morning. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (R-1B-74-DS)
Creator:
Religious News Service. (publisher)
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., Mary Magdalene, Saint--Art., Mary of Clopas, Mother of James and Joseph--Art., Salome--Art., Jesus Christ--Resurrection.
Topics:
Easter., Christian art and symbolism.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:362523
Title:
New year begins in Northern Ireland.
Description:
Text transcribed from caption: PC-45076 NEW YEAR BEGINS IN NORTHERN IRELAND BELFAST -- The new year begins with violence in Belfast. Police sift through the devastation caused by a massive bomb which exploded in a stolen taxi. The bomb blast, as well as other incidents of violence, came on the first day of a new government for Ulster -- a 15-man executive comprised of both Catholics and Protestants. The violence is believed to have been caused by both Protestant and Catholic extremists. Militant Protestants fear that the British government is bowing to Catholic interests and will sell them out to the Irish Republic. The Provisional wing of the illegal Irish Republican Army, on the other hand, is continuing its fight for a united Ireland and for the freedom of suspected guerrillas who have been interned without trial. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (B-BEL-1A-74-DS)
Creator:
United Press International. (publisher)
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., Irish Republican Army., Catholic Church--Relations--Protestant churches.
Topics:
Buildings--Blast effects--Northern Ireland--Belfast., Church and state--Northern Ireland--Belfast.
Geographic subjects:
Belfast (Northern Ireland), Northern Ireland--History--1968-1998.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:362522
Title:
Unaccredited Christian schools under fire.
Description:
Text transcribed from caption: PC-45075 UNACCREDITED CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS UNDER FIRE GREENVILLE, Ohio -- A court case in Greenville, Ohio, involving the parents of children who attend unaccredited Christian schools may develop into a landmark in church-state relations. The case began in December when a Darke County grand jury handed down eight secret indictments against parents who have removed their children from public school and sent them to a Christian school operated by God's Tabernacle, an independent congregation. The Rev. Levi W. Whisner, who was ordained by the United Missionary Church and the Wesleyan Tabernacle Association, both small fundamentalist groups, is pastor of God's Tabernacle and principal of the school. He was one of the persons indicted because his 13-year-old daughter, Janice, attends the school. Here, Janice studies at her desk at the school. Legal action was taken after public school superintendents filed a complaint based on reports from an attendance officer indicating that the children were not attending the public schools. Ohio law says parents are required to send their children to schools accredited by the state. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (CA-DAY-1A-74-DS)
Creator:
Rutledge, Don. (photographer), Religious News Service. (publisher)
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., Whisner, Levi W., United Missionary Church--Clergy., Whisner, Janice.
Topics:
Accreditation (Education)--Ohio--Greenville., Church schools--Ohio--Greenville., Church and education--Ohio--Greenville., Church and state--Ohio--Greenville., Indictments--Ohio--Greenville., Educational law and legislation--Ohio--Greenville.
Geographic subjects:
Greenville., Greenville (Ohio)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:362521
Title:
Report on interfaith mission to Israel.
Description:
Text transcribed from caption: PC-45073 REPORT ON INTERFAITH MISSION TO ISRAEL BOSTON -- Three religious leaders representing the Christian and Jewish faiths report on their 10-day study mission to Israel at a Boston news conference. Dr. Gene E. Bartlett, Father Robert W. Bullock and Rabbi Murray I. Rothman (left to right) participated in the first greater Boston ecumenical mission sponsored by three local groups -- the Interfaith Committee of the Jewish Community Council of Metropolitan Boston, National Conference of Christians and Jews, and the Catholic-Jewish Committee of the Archdiocesan Ecumenical Commission. Dr. Bartlett, pastor of the First Baptist church in Newton, Mass., is president of the American Baptist Churches in the U.S.A. Father Bullock serves as director of Campus Ministry of the Archdiocese of Boston and is Catholic chaplain at Brandeis University. Rabbi Rothman chairs the Jewish Community Council's Interfaith Committee and is spiritual leader of Temple Shalom in Newton. During their intensive tour, the participants lived on a kibbutz, met with Jewish and Arab officials and private citizens, and worshipped together at Christian and Jewish holy places. The group was comprised of ten Protestant, nine Catholic and four Jewish leaders. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (CB-BOS-1A-74-DS)
Creator:
House of Photography, Inc. (Boston, Mass.) (photographer)
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., Bartlett, Gene E., Bullock, Robert W., Rothman, Murry I., National Conference of Christians and Jews., First Baptist Church (Newton, Mass), American Baptist Churches in the U.S.A.--Clergy., Catholic Church--Clergy., Catholic Church. Archdiocese of Boston (Mass.), Brandeis University--Faculty., Temple Shalom of Newton (Newton, Mass.)
Topics:
Jewish-Arab relations., Judaism--Relations--Christianity., Christianity and other religions--Judaism., Press conferences--Massachusetts--Boston., Interfaith worship--Israel.
Geographic subjects:
Boston (Mass.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:362520
Title:
Daniel Berrigan rejects award.
Description:
Text transcribed from caption: PC-45069 DANIEL BERRIGAN REJECTS AWARD NEW YORK -- Blasting what he called his critics in the "armies of orthodoxy," Father Daniel Berrigan, S.J., has rejected the Gandhi Peace Award he was to receive in New York Jan. 9. Announcement that the 52-year-old priest had been selected for the honor brought protests from Jews and others angered by what they considered an anti-Israeli speech Father Berrigan made before an Arab student group in October. Refusing the award "brings me somewhat near to the spirit of Gandhi," he said in a letter to Promoting Enduring Peace, sponsor of the award. "lt is not a time for reward, but a time for labor". Father Berrigan said in the letter that American Catholic opposition to his peace efforts -- which led to imprisonment for burning draft records -- had expanded beyond the "bellicose dogmas of Cardinal Spellman." "Now it is on three fronts, Catholic, Protestant and Jewish, that the armies of orthodoxy appear, " he wrote. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS. SERVICE PHOTO (R-12D-73-DS)
Creator:
Tower News Service (New York, N.Y.) (publisher)
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., Berrigan, Daniel., Catholic Church--Clergy., Jesuits.
Topics:
Jewish-Arab relations., Judaism--Relations--Christianity., Christianity and other religions--Judaism., Award winners--New York (State)--New York.
Geographic subjects:
New York (N.Y.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:362519
Title:
Grim warning.
Description:
Text transcribed from caption: PC-45059 GRIM WARNING NEW YORK -- A television reporter interviews a member of the Children of God religious sect as the group demonstrates near the United Nations in New York. Members of the group held placards proclaiming the Comet Kohoutek as a sign of the impending judgment of God. Kohoutek has taken on religious significance among some fundamentalist groups. The so-called "Christmas comet" is seen by some as a possible sign of the Second Coming of Christ, while others interpret it as a warning of impending doom. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (A-NY-12D-73-DS)
Creator:
Wide World Photos, Inc. (publisher)
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives.
Topics:
Children of God., Second Advent., Television feature stories--New York (State)--New York., Interviews--New York (State)--New York., Judgment of God., Fundamentalists--New York (State)--New York., Comets--New York (State)--New York.
Geographic subjects:
New York (N.Y.), Kohoutek comet.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:362518
Title:
At Mid-East peace conference.
Description:
Text transcribed from caption: PC-45054 AT MID-EAST PEACE CONFERENCE GENEVA -- Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko (left) listens as U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger talks during a luncheon meeting in Geneva. The two men met for more than two hours following the preliminary session of the Middle East peace conference. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (B-GEN-12D-73-DS)
Creator:
United Press International. (publisher)
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., Gromyko, Andreĭ Andreevich, 1909-1989., Kissinger, Henry, 1923-2023.
Topics:
Foreign ministers--Soviet Union., Cabinet officers--United States., Meetings--Switzerland--Geneva., Arab-Israeli conflict.
Geographic subjects:
Geneva (Switzerland), United States--Foreign relations--Soviet Union.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:362517
Title:
Institutions face problems in New York.
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Text transcribed from caption: PC-45052 INSTITUTIONS FACE PROBLEMS IN NEW YORK NEW YORK -- The Jewish Theological Seminary of America's announcement that it is considering moving, perhaps outside New York City, focuses attention on Morningside Heights, an area of northern Manhattan with one of the heaviest concentrations of religious and educational institutions in the nation. Located within a few blocks of each other are Jewish Theological (1), Teachers' College (2), Columbia University (3), Barnard College (4), Union Theological Seminary (5), the Interchurch Center (6), Riverside Church (7) and the Episcopal Cathedral of St. John the Divine (8). The area is bounded on the east by Morningside Park (right) and on the west by the Hudson River. One pressing problem for the Jewish Theological Seminary and the other institutions is the need for more space. The seminary owns two partly empty apartment buildings which it wants to raze for a new structure. Legal snags, including tenant attempts to prohibit the razing of the buildings, have delayed construction for some nine years. Columbia and St. John the Divine faced similar problems in the past when they attempted to expand. Another issue in Morningside Heights is safety on the streets. There has been a rash of assaults in the area; last year a Columbia professor was killed less than a block from Jewish Theological Seminary. Employees of the Interchurch Center are warned not to go out alone at noon because of the high rate of muggings and stabbings in Morningside Heights. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (C-NY-12C- 73-DS)
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., Jewish Theological Seminary of America., Columbia University. Teachers College., Barnard College., Union Theological Seminary (New York, N.Y.), Interchurch Center (New York, N.Y.), Riverside Church (New York, N.Y.), Cathedral of St. John the Divine (New York, N.Y.)
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Religious institutions--New York (State)--New York., Rabbinical seminaries--New York (State)--New York., Universities and colleges--New York (State)--New York.
Geographic subjects:
New York (N.Y.), Morningside Heights (New York, N.Y.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:362516
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To be jailed for contempt.
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Text transcribed from caption: PC-45047 TO BE JAILED FOR CONTEMPT SIOUX FALLS, S.D. -- A national executive of the American Lutheran Church (ALC), Dr. Paul A. Boe, has been ordered to jail for refusing to testify about what he saw and heard during 10 days spent last March in the Indian community of Wounded Knee, S.D. Dr. Boe claimed that the conversations he had with leaders of the American Indian Movement (AIM) during the confrontation there fell within a Clergy-penitent relationship and were therefore privileged. Judge Paul Benson, a lay member of an ALC church in Fargo, N.D., rejected the argument and held Dr. Boe in contempt of court. He ordered the ALC clergyman, who is executive director of the denomination's Division of Social Service, to the custody of the U.S. marshal in Sioux Falls for confinement in "a suitable place" until he is willing to testify before a grand jury. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (C-MIN-12C-73-DS)
Creator:
American Lutheran Church (1961-1987) (publisher)
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., American Lutheran Church (1961-1987)--Clergy., Boe, Paul A., American Indian Movement., American Lutheran Church (1961-1987). Division of Social Service., Benson, Paul, 1918-
Topics:
Contempt of court--South Dakota--Sioux Falls., Conduct of court proceedings--South Dakota--Sioux Falls., Indigenous peoples of North America--Civil rights., Political activists--South Dakota--Sioux Falls.
Geographic subjects:
Sioux Falls (S.D.), Wounded Knee (S.D.)--History--Indigenous occupation, 1973.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:362515

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