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:
Belfast bomb blast kills 14.
Creator:
United Press International. (publisher)
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., Irish Republican Army.
Topics:
Political violence--Northern Ireland--Belfast., Bombings--Northern Ireland--Belfast.
Geographic subjects:
Belfast (Northern Ireland)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:309057
Title:
Blast rocks Ulster Church.
Creator:
United Press International. (publisher)
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., St. Patrick's Roman Catholic Church (Ballycastle, Northern Ireland)
Topics:
Bombings--Northern Ireland--Ballycastle., Catholic Church--Northern Ireland--Ballycastle.
Geographic subjects:
Ballycastle (Northern Ireland)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:309050
Title:
Callaghan Visits Ulster; I.R.S. Continues Bombing.
Description:
New York Times newspaper clipping regarding Ireland Republic Army bombings in 1977.
Creator:
New York times. (publisher)
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., Ulster Defense Association., Callaghan, Leonard James, 1912-2005.
Topics:
Political violence--Northern Ireland--Belfast., Bombings--Northern Ireland--Belfast.
Geographic subjects:
Belfast (Northern Ireland)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:309046
Title:
Blast rocks Ulster Church.
Description:
Text transcribed from caption: PC-44598 BLAST ROCKS ULSTER CHURCH BALLYCASTLE, Northern Ireland -- The wreckage of a car is inspected after bombs inside it exploded outside St. Patrick's Roman Catholic church in Ballycastle, Northern Ireland. Four persons were seriously injured in the blast, which occurred only minutes before 800 worshippers would have been streaming out at the end of the Mass. The church's stained glass windows were shattered and other buildings were damaged by the explosion. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (B-BEL-8E-73-DS)
Creator:
United Press International. (publisher)
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., St. Patrick's Roman Catholic Church (Ballycastle, Northern Ireland)
Topics:
Bombings--Northern Ireland--Ballycastle., Catholic Church--Northern Ireland--Ballycastle.
Geographic subjects:
Ballycastle (Northern Ireland)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:309043
Title:
Belfast bomb blast kills 14.
Description:
Text transcribed from caption: PHOTO NUMBER: PC-50846 BELFAST BOMB BLAST KILLS 14 BELFAST, No. Ireland -- A fireman picks his way through the gutted ruins of the Lam Mon night club in Belfast after a bomb exploded on Feb. 17. British troops continue their roundup of IRA suspects in the bombing which killed 14 people. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (B-BEL-2C-78-JH)
Creator:
United Press International. (publisher)
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., Irish Republican Army.
Topics:
Political violence--Northern Ireland--Belfast., Bombings--Northern Ireland--Belfast.
Geographic subjects:
Belfast (Northern Ireland)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:309042
Title:
Church bombed in Belfast.
Description:
Text transcribed from caption: PC-44661 CHURCH BOMBED IN BELFAST BELFAST, No. Ireland -- What terrorism brings to a country. British soldiers check rubble shortly after the explosion of a 150-pund bomb demolished the Church of Christ the King on Sept. 11. The church must be completely rebuilt. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (2-NY-9B-73-W)
Creator:
United Press International. (publisher)
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., Church of Christ the King (Belfast, Northern Ireland)
Topics:
Bombings--Northern Ireland--Belfast., Church buildings--Northern Ireland--Belfast.
Geographic subjects:
Belfast (Northern Ireland)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:309039
Title:
Belfast violence is reduced during 1977.
Description:
Text transcribed from caption: PHOTO NUMBER: PC-50648 BELFAST VIOLENCE IS REDUCED DURING 1977 BELFAST -- Road blocks like this of the Ulster Defense Association are still a common sight in strife-torn Belfast, Northern Ireland, though the level of violence in 1977 has been the lowest since 1970. Violence-induced deaths were reduced to 111 in 1977, as compared with 296 last year and 482 in 1972, the worst year on record. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (CP-BEL-12D-77-JH)
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., Ulster Defense Association.
Topics:
Political violence--Northern Ireland--Belfast.
Geographic subjects:
Belfast (Northern Ireland)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:309038
Title:
Terrorism in Northern Ireland.
Description:
Text transcribed from caption: PC-44563 TERRORISM IN NORTHERN IRELAND BELFAST-- Flames rise from a bottled gas warehouse near the center of Belfast after a bomb, planted by an armed group, exploded on Sept. 6. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (1-NY-9B-73-W)
Creator:
Wide World Photos, Inc. (publisher)
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives.
Topics:
Bombings--Northern Ireland--Belfast., Fires--Northern Ireland--Belfast.
Geographic subjects:
Belfast (Northern Ireland)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:309034
Title:
IRA demonstrates against visit of Queen to Belfast.
Description:
Text transcribed from caption: PHOTO NUMBER: PC-50141. IRA DEMONSTRATES AGAINST VISIT OF QUEEN TO BELFAST BELFAST: Lying on the ground, a British soldier is stoned by riots during demonstration against the visit of Queen Elizabeth to Belfast on August 10. Supporters of the outlawed Irish Republic Army (IRA) were protesting against the "presence of a foreign queen."\nCREDIT MUST READ: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (B-BEL-8B-77-JH)
Creator:
United Press International. (publisher)
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., Elizabeth II, Queen of Great Britain, 1926-2022., Irish Republican Army.
Topics:
Monarchy--Great Britain., Riots--Northern Ireland--Belfast.
Geographic subjects:
Belfast (Northern Ireland)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:293416
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
Title:
Peace mission in Belfast.
Description:
The Rev. Arthur Blessitt, the Baptist minister who is a leader of the Jesus People movement in the U.S., carries a wooden cross and passes out "Smile, Jesus Loves you" stickers to people as he walks on a peace mission through the streets of Belfast.
Creator:
Wide World Photos, Inc. (publisher)
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., Blessitt, Arthur.
Topics:
Jesus People--Northern Ireland--Belfast., Evangelists--Northern Ireland--Belfast., Crosses.
Geographic subjects:
Belfast (Northern Ireland)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:149950
Title:
Troops search monastery.
Description:
A Catholic Cistercian monk watches stoically as British soldiers move in to search Our Lady of Bethlehem Monastery at Portglenone in County Antrim. The troops reportedly picked up two priests from the monastery who were accompanying two jailbreakers in clerical garb. Sources in Belfast said the army believed that other revolutionaries may have been hiding in the monastery.
Creator:
United Press International. (publisher)
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., Our Lady of Bethlehem Abbey., Cistercians--Northern Ireland--Antrim (County), Great Britain. Army
Topics:
Cistercian monasteries--Northern Ireland--Antrim (County)
Geographic subjects:
Antrim (Northern Ireland : County), Belfast (Northern Ireland), Northern Ireland--History--1968-1998.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:149838

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