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:
Opening of Orthodox festival.
Description:
Text transcribed from caption: EPO-29831 OPENING OF ORTHODOX FESTIVAL PITTSBURGH -- Part of the great crowd of 10,000 is shown as it participated in a service at the first National Eastern Orthodox Religious Cultural Festival ever held in America. Archbishop Iakovos, primate of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of North and South America, headed a procession of some 100 acolytes and 150 Orthodox bishops, priests and seminarians into Pittsburgh’s Civic Arena to open the festival. Youth groups from seven Orthodox Churches in the U.S. participated. Featured was a 1,000-voice choir. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (CET-PTS-9A-63-W)
Creator:
Tarasovic, Charles E. (photographer)
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., Iakovos, Archbishop of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of North and South America., Orthodoxos Ekklēsia tēs Hellados--Bishops., Civic Arena (Pittsburgh, Pa.), Orthodoxos Ekklēsia tēs Hellados--Liturgy.
Topics:
Bishops--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh., Festivals--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh., Ethnic festivals--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh., Liturgies--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh.
Geographic subjects:
Pittsburgh (Pa.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:358076
Title:
Letter from Charles E. Tarasovic, September 3, 1963.
Creator:
Tarasovic, Charles E. (author)
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., Iakovos, Archbishop of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of North and South America., Orthodoxos Ekklēsia tēs Hellados--Bishops., Civic Arena (Pittsburgh, Pa.), Orthodoxos Ekklēsia tēs Hellados--Liturgy.
Topics:
Bishops--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh., Festivals--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh., Ethnic festivals--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh., Liturgies--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh.
Geographic subjects:
Pittsburgh (Pa.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:357950
Title:
Playing a waiting game.
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Text transcribed from caption: P-31263 PLAYING A WAITING GAME PITTSBURGH -- Grandfather had just been elected to the Executive Council and Dad was engaged in the weighty debaters of the Lutheran Church in America’s biennial convention, but these unofficial delegates took it easy in a room just off the convention. Mark Hurty, 7, and brother John, 5, play checkers as they wait for their grandfather (Dr. Carl W. Segerhammar, president of the Pacific Southwest Synod and newly-elected member of the Executive Council) and father (the Rev. David L. Hurty, pastor of Resurrection Lutheran church, Santa Barbara, Cal.). Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (BS-PTS-7B-64-W)
Creator:
Lutheran Church in America. (publisher), Brady Stewart Studio, Inc. (Pittsburgh, Pa.) (photographer)
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., Lutheran Church in America., Lutheran Church in America--Congresses., Hurty, Mark., Hurty, John.
Topics:
Congresses and conventions--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh., Clergy conferences--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh., Children of clergy--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh.
Geographic subjects:
Pittsburgh (Pa.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:350249
Title:
Negro attorney named to LCA Executive Council.
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Text transcribed from caption: P-31262 NEGRO ATTORNEY NAMED TO LCA EXECUTIVE COUNCIL PITTSBURGH -- William S. Ellis, a New York attorney (left), became the first Negro to be elected to the Executive Council of the Lutheran Church in America. He is congratulated here during the LCA’s second biennial convention at Pittsburgh, Pa., by Dr. Theodore E. Matson, president of the denomination’s Wisconsin-Upper Michigan Synod. Mr. Ellis, in an address to the convention, made a plea to Lutherans to “present their bodies for the picket line” in support of the new civil rights bill.” Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (BS-Pit-7B-64-NBM)
Creator:
Lutheran Church in America. (publisher), Brady Stewart Studio, Inc. (Pittsburgh, Pa.) (photographer)
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., Lutheran Church in America., Lutheran Church in America--Congresses., Ellis, William S., Matson, Theodore E., 1906-1987.
Topics:
Congresses and conventions--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh., Clergy conferences--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh., African American lawyers--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh., Civil rights--Religious aspects--Christianity., Lawyers--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh.
Geographic subjects:
Pittsburgh (Pa.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:350248
Title:
Pectoral cross given to LCA president.
Description:
Text transcribed from caption: P-31261 PECTORAL CROSS GIVEN TO LCA PRESIDENT PITTSBURGH -- Dr. Franklin Clark Fry (center), president of the Lutheran Church in America, receives a gold pectoral cross donated by St. Luke’s Lutheran church, Silver Spring, Md., during the denomination's second biennial convention at Pittsburgh, Pa. Dr. Raymond E. Shahee (right), pastor of the donor congregation, presented the cross to Dr. Malvin H. Lundeen, LCA secretary, who placed it around the neck of Dr. Fry. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (BS-Pit-7B-64-NBM)
Creator:
Lutheran Church in America. (publisher), Brady Stewart Studio, Inc. (Pittsburgh, Pa.) (photographer)
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., Fry, Franklin Clark, 1900-1968., Lutheran Church in America., Lutheran Church in America--Congresses., Shahee, Raymond E., Lundeen, Malvin H.
Topics:
Congresses and conventions--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh., Clergy conferences--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh., Clergy--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh., Pectoral cross.
Geographic subjects:
Pittsburgh (Pa.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:350247
Title:
Playing a waiting game.
Creator:
Lutheran Church in America. (author)
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., Lutheran Church in America., Lutheran Church in America--Congresses., Hurty, Mark., Hurty, John.
Topics:
Congresses and conventions--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh., Clergy conferences--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh., Children of clergy--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh.
Geographic subjects:
Pittsburgh (Pa.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:349896
Title:
Negro attorney named to LCA Executive Council.
Creator:
Lutheran Church in America. (author)
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., Lutheran Church in America., Lutheran Church in America--Congresses., Ellis, William S., Matson, Theodore E., 1906-1987.
Topics:
Congresses and conventions--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh., Clergy conferences--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh., African American lawyers--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh., Civil rights--Religious aspects--Christianity., Lawyers--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh.
Geographic subjects:
Pittsburgh (Pa.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:349877
Title:
Lutheran church given gold president's cross.
Creator:
Lutheran Church in America. (author)
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., Fry, Franklin Clark, 1900-1968., Lutheran Church in America., Lutheran Church in America--Congresses., Shahee, Raymond E., Lundeen, Malvin H.
Topics:
Congresses and conventions--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh., Clergy conferences--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh., Clergy--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh., Pectoral cross.
Geographic subjects:
Pittsburgh (Pa.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:349764
Title:
Lutheran deaconesses at Catholic program.
Description:
Alternate caption.
Creator:
Deedy, Jack. (author)
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., Jungermann, Carol., Holy Cross Lutheran Church (Pittsburgh, Pa.), Fischer, Edith., Passavant Hospital (Pittsburgh, Pa.), Catholic Church. Diocese of Pittsburgh (Pa.)--Congresses.
Topics:
Deaconesses--Lutheran Church., Deaconesses--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh., Monasticism and religious orders for women--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh., Nuns--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh., Congresses and conventions--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh., Interdenominational cooperation.
Geographic subjects:
Pittsburgh (Pa.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:349397
Title:
Lutheran deaconesses at Catholic program.
Description:
Text transcribed from caption: PC-31566 LUTHERAN DEACONESSES AT CATHOLIC PROGRAM PITTSBURGH -- Two Lutheran deaconesses were observers at the annual Liturgical Day for nuns of the Pittsburgh Roman Catholic diocese. They were Deaconess Carol Jungermann of Holy Cross Lutheran church, Brushton (rear); and Sister Edith Fischer, in charge of chaplaincy service at Passavant Hospital (right). They are shown with nun-members of the Diocesan Liturgical Commission -- Sister Edward Mary (left), and Sister Kevin. After the Liturgical Day, the Lutheran observers commented on parallels they found between Protestant and Catholic renewal. They cited the "sense of mission" being instilled in youth and the effort to get away from "the Sunday kind of faith" toward an everyday living of religion. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (JD-PITT-9C-64-NAB)
Creator:
Deedy, Jack. (photographer)
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., Jungermann, Carol., Holy Cross Lutheran Church (Pittsburgh, Pa.), Fischer, Edith., Passavant Hospital (Pittsburgh, Pa.), Catholic Church. Diocese of Pittsburgh (Pa.)--Congresses.
Topics:
Deaconesses--Lutheran Church., Deaconesses--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh., Monasticism and religious orders for women--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh., Nuns--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh., Congresses and conventions--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh., Interdenominational cooperation.
Geographic subjects:
Pittsburgh (Pa.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:349207
Title:
Top Methodist bishops.
Creator:
Methodist Church (U.S.). General Conference. (author)
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., Methodist Church (U.S.). General Conference., Methodist Church (U.S.)--Bishops., Taylor, Prince Albert, 1907-2001., Wicke, Lloyd C., Short, Roy H. (Roy Hunter), 1902-, Frank, Eugene M. (Eugene Maxwell), 1907-2009., Raines, Richard C., Wunderlich, Friedrich, 1896-1990.
Topics:
Bishops--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh., Methodist conferences--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh.
Geographic subjects:
Pittsburgh (Pa.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:348603
Title:
This school aims for few grads, none if possible.
Creator:
Carl Byoir & Associates. (author), Radio Corporation of America. RCA Victor Division. (client)
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., Bartley, Thomas R., DePaul Institute (Pittsburgh, Pa.), Sisters of Charity of Seton Hill (Greensburg, Pa.)
Topics:
Church work with people with disabilities--Catholic Church., Children with disabilities--Education--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh., Nuns as teachers--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh., Self-help devices for people with disabilities--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh., Blind--Books and reading--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh., Hearing impaired children--Means of communication--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh.
Geographic subjects:
Pittsburgh (Pa.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:348597
Title:
Classroom record.
Description:
Alternate caption.
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., Burgunder, Tommy., DePaul Institute (Pittsburgh, Pa.), Sisters of Charity of Seton Hill (Greensburg, Pa.)
Topics:
Church work with people with disabilities--Catholic Church., Children with disabilities--Education--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh., Nuns as teachers--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh., Self-help devices for people with disabilities--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh., Children with visual disabilities--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh., Blind--Books and reading--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh.
Geographic subjects:
Pittsburgh (Pa.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:348571
Title:
Burned cross, a symbol of protest.
Description:
Alternate caption.
Creator:
Wide World Photos, Inc. (author)
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., Tougaloo College--Students., Civic Arena (Pittsburgh, Pa.), Methodist Church (U.S.). General Conference., Moore, Austin C.
Topics:
Segregation--Religious aspects--Christianity., Civil rights movements--United States., Civil rights demonstrations--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh., African American college students--Illinois--Chicago., Historically Black colleges and universities--Mississippi--Jackson., Universities and colleges--Mississippi--Jackson., College students--Illinois--Chicago.
Geographic subjects:
Pittsburgh (Pa.), Jackson (Miss.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:348541
Title:
World-wide communion.
Creator:
Methodist Church (U.S.). General Conference. (author)
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., Methodist Church (U.S.). General Conference., Methodist Church (U.S.)--Bishops., Taylor, Prince Albert, 1907-2001., Barbieri, Sante Uberto., Mondol, Shot K., Sigg, Ferdinand., Wicke, Lloyd C., Ledden, Walter Earl., Trinity Cathedral (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
Topics:
Bishops--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh., Lord's Supper--Methodist Church., Methodist conferences--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh.
Geographic subjects:
Pittsburgh (Pa.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:348479
Title:
Methodist leaders from many lands.
Creator:
Methodist Information (Pittsburgh, Pa.) (publisher)
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., Methodist Church (U.S.). General Conference., Methodist Church (U.S.)--Clergy.
Topics:
Methodist conferences--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh.
Geographic subjects:
Pittsburgh (Pa.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:348406
Title:
Charred cross symbolizes racial protest.
Description:
Text transcribed from caption: P-30969 CHARRED CROSS SYMBOLIZES RACIAL PROTEST PITTSBURGH -- More than 1,000 Methodists knelt, linked hands and sang “We Shall Overcome” as a charred cross -- burned by the Ku Klux Klan on the campus of predominantly Negro Tougaloo Southern Christian College near Jackson, Miss. -- is carried past the Pittsburgh Civic Arena where the denomination held its Quadrennial General Conference. The demonstration, against segregation in general as well as within the Methodist Church -- started at midnight with a prayer vigil and continued until Conference sessions were underway. The cross is carried by Austin Moore of Chicago, a student at the Mississippi college. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (W-NY-5B-64-NBM)
Creator:
Wide World Photos, Inc. (publisher)
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., Tougaloo College--Students., Civic Arena (Pittsburgh, Pa.), Methodist Church (U.S.). General Conference., Moore, Austin C., Ku Klux Klan (1915- )
Topics:
Segregation--Religious aspects--Christianity., Civil rights movements--United States., Civil rights demonstrations--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh., African American college students--Illinois--Chicago., Historically Black colleges and universities--Mississippi--Jackson., Universities and colleges--Mississippi--Jackson., College students--Illinois--Chicago.
Geographic subjects:
Pittsburgh (Pa.), Jackson (Miss.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:348405
Title:
Methodist bishops' council meets.
Description:
Text transcribed from caption: P-30953 METHODIST BISHOPS’ COUNCIL MEETS PITTSBURGH, Pa. -- Bishop Lloyd C. Wicke of New York (seated, center) assumed the presidency of the Methodist Council of Bishops as it met in connection with the denomination’s quadrennial General Conference in Pittsburgh, Pa. The bishops made Methodist history by electing for the first time a Negro bishop at the council’s president-designate. He is Bishop Prince A. Taylor, Jr., of Monrovia, Liberia (seated, left). Right is Bishop Roy H. Short of Nashville, Tenn., council secretary. Standing are three members at-large of the council’s Executive Committee. Left to right: Bishop Eugene M. Frank of St. Louis, Mo.; Bishop Richard C. Raines of Indianapolis, Ind.; and Bishop Frederich Wunderlich of Frankfurt, Germany. The council’s out-going president was Bishop Paul N. Garber of Richmond, Va. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (MC-4D-64-NAB)
Creator:
Methodist Church (U.S.). General Conference. (publisher)
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., Methodist Church (U.S.). General Conference., Methodist Church (U.S.)--Bishops., Taylor, Prince Albert, 1907-2001., Wicke, Lloyd C., Short, Roy H. (Roy Hunter), 1902-, Frank, Eugene M. (Eugene Maxwell), 1907-2009., Raines, Richard C., Wunderlich, Friedrich, 1896-1990.
Topics:
Bishops--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh., Methodist conferences--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh.
Geographic subjects:
Pittsburgh (Pa.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:348404
Title:
Communion service at Methodist conference.
Description:
Text transcribed from caption: P-30941 COMMUNION SERVICE AT METHODIST CONFERENCE PITTSBURGH, Pa. -- Bishops from five nations share Holy Communion at a service opening the worldwide quadrennial General Conference of The Methodist Church in Pittsburgh, Pa. Kneeling at the altar of Trinity Cathedral are from left, Bishop Prince A. Taylor, Jr., of Monrovia, Liberia; Bishop Sante Uberto Barbieri of Buenos Aires, Argentina; Bishop Shot K. Mondol of Delhi, India; Bishop Ferdinand Sigg of Zurich, Switzerland; and Bishop Lloyd C. Wicke of New York. Standing is retired Bishop W. Earl Ledden of Washington, D. C., the celebrant. Bishop Wicke is president of the Methodist Council of Bishops. President-elect is Bishop Taylor, the first Negro to hold that post. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (MC-4D-64-NAB)
Creator:
David Vandeveer Photography (Pittsburgh, Pa.) (photographer), Methodist Church (U.S.). General Conference. (publisher)
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., Methodist Church (U.S.). General Conference., Methodist Church (U.S.)--Bishops., Taylor, Prince Albert, 1907-2001., Barbieri, Sante Uberto., Mondol, Shot K., Sigg, Ferdinand., Wicke, Lloyd C., Ledden, Walter Earl., Trinity Cathedral (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
Topics:
Bishops--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh., Lord's Supper--Methodist Church., Methodist conferences--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh.
Geographic subjects:
Pittsburgh (Pa.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:348403
Title:
Electronics help the handicapped.
Description:
Text transcribed from caption: C-30897 ELECTRONICS HELP THE HANDICAPPED PITTSBURGH -- Tape rec orders, hearing aids and other electronic equipment are used extensively by Sisters of Charity and lay teachers in educating handicapped students at the De Paul Institute in Pittsburg. Five hundred students, from 2 to 18 years of age, are either partially or wholly blind or deaf or have serious speech defects. In this photo Sister Angelica cuts a lacquer record as Tommy Burgunder, 12, follows the recording playing by a tape cartridge recorder against the text in his Braille text book. “Our students like to make recordings in class,” the nun says, “and the enjoyment they derive acts as a powerful incentive to learning.” The school charges no tuition and accepts students regardless of race or religion. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (CBA-NY-4D-64-NAB)
Creator:
Carl Byoir & Associates. (publisher)
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., Burgunder, Tommy., DePaul Institute (Pittsburgh, Pa.), Sisters of Charity of Seton Hill (Greensburg, Pa.)
Topics:
Church work with people with disabilities--Catholic Church., Children with disabilities--Education--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh., Nuns as teachers--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh., Self-help devices for people with disabilities--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh., Children with visual disabilities--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh., Blind--Books and reading--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh.
Geographic subjects:
Pittsburgh (Pa.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:348402

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