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Title:Description:Text transcribed from caption: C-45836 FAITH AND ORDER COMMISSION ACCRA, Ghana -- The University of Ghana was the site for the first meeting of the World Council of Churches Faith and Order Commission in Africa. Leaders present included (left to right): Canon Burgess Carr, general secretary of the All-Africa Conference of Churches; Father John Meyendorff, chairman of the Commission and a theologian of the Orthodox Church in America; Col. I.K. Acheampong, Ghana’s head of state and a Roman Catholic layman; Dr. Lukas Vischer, director of the WCC Faith and Order Secretariat, and Dr. J. Robert Nelson, chairman of the Faith and Order Working Committee and dean of the Boston University School of Theology. The Faith and Order Commission, which includes Roman Catholic members as well as representatives from the Council’s Protestant and Orthodox communion, is a major component of the international ecumenical movement. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (F-AC-7E-74-D)URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:360991
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Title:Description:Text transcribed from caption: PC-45830 COURT CALLS FOR TAPES WASHINGTON, D.C. -- The Supreme Court of the United States has voted 8-0 to require President Nixon to provide some 64 tape recordings involving the Watergate incident. One member of the court, Justice William H. Rehnquist, abstained from acting on the case, having been a member of the Nixon Administration. The President said he would accede to the Court’s directive. The Court (left to right, first row): Justices Potter Stewart; William O. Douglas; Chief Justice Warren E. Burger, who issued the ruling; William J. Brennan and Byron R. White. Back Row: Justices Lewis F. Powell, Jr.; Thurgood Marshall; Harry Blackmun, and Rehnquist. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (1-NY-7D-74-W)URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:360990
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Description:Text transcribed from caption: MAN IN A SHELL COMPOUNDED BY WAR PC-45826 NICOSIA, Cyprus -- A confused old man pictures the tragedy of war in Cyprus. Resident of a hospital for psychiatric patients six miles south of Nicosia, a hospital bombed by Turkish aircraft, he is left alone in blankness. The short-lived war’s first casualties were fellow residents of the hospital. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (1-NY-7D-74-W)URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:360989
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Description:Text transcribed from caption: PC-45825 CYPRUS’ PRESIDENT -- WILL MAKARIOS FOLLOW? NICOSIA, Cyprus -- Glafcos Clerides has been named President of Cyprus in an apparent move by the short-lived rebel government, in leaving office, to come to peace terms with Turkey. Mr. Clerides was prominent figure in the previous government headed by Archbishop Makarios, head of the Orthodox Church in Cyprus and President of the country. Archbishop Makarios, while in New York, saw Mr. Clerides as an “acting President,” but Mr. Clerides said later that the return of the archbishop would be up to the people of Cyprus, not to his own decision. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (1-NY-7D-74-W)URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:360988
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Description:Text transcribed from caption: PC-45824 ‘CIVILIAN’ PREMIER TAKES OVER IN GREECE ATHENS -- The tide turns from a military junta to a civilian-run government of Greece. Army leaders in Greece have turned back the reins of government to the people, and a conservative politician, long self-exiled in Paris, returns to head the government. Constantine Caramanlis, right, is shown as he took the oath of office as Price Minister from Archbishop Seraphim, Primate of Greece and Archbishop of Athens. Key to the turnover was the chaotic situation in Cyprus. Mr. Caramanlis had spent 11 years in exile in France. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (1-NY-7D-74-W)URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:360987
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Description:Text transcribed from caption: PC-45823 NETHERLANDS HEROINE MEETS YOUTH LAUSANNE, Switzerland -- Miss Corrie ten Boom (right), the evangelist from the Netherlands who was sent to a concentration camp for sheltering Jews during World War II, meets informally with young admirers at the International Congress on World Evangelization. The octogenarian writer, whose latest book, Tramp for the Lord, was recently published, is the subject of a film now being made by World Wide Pictures. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (F-LAU-7D-74-D)URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:360986
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Title:Description:Text transcribed from caption: PC-45821 PRAYERS FOR A PRESIDENT WASHINGTON, D.C. -- The National Prayer and Fast Committee, joining one of President Nixon’s greatest supporters, Rabbi Baruch Korff, begin three-day vigil of prayer and fasting in support of Richard Nixon and “Congressional sensitivity to God’s guidance on the crucial decisions facing Congress this month. Here Neil Solonen, president of the National Prayer and Fast Committee, and his wife begin the vigil on July 22. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (2-NY-7D-74-W)URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:360985
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Description:Text transcribed from caption: PC-45819 THE PASTOR’S PEN MAKES YOU LAUGH BOYNTON BEACH, Fla. -- Meet a minister -- a cartoonist -- oops! Meet the pastor of First United Methodist Church in Boynton Beach, Fla., who is also a cartoonist. Dr. W. Goddard Sherman, the pastor, appears in The New Yorker Magazine almost as often as he appears in his pulpit-- and hundreds of publications, large and small, pay him from $15 to $100 for his work with a pencil. At top, he’s shown doing his ‘thing’ -- cartooning -- as he also thinks out his next sermon. Below are shown typical examples of his work involving humor. Millions of Americans “break up” at his drawings, hundreds in Boynton Beach dedicate themselves after hearing his sermons. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (AT-MI-7D-74-W)URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:360984
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Title:Description:Text transcribed from caption: PC-45815 CYPRUS LEADER ATTACKS FOES NEW YORK -- Archbishop Makarios, the ousted President of Cyprus, addresses worshippers at the Greek Orthodox Holy Trinity Cathedral in New York City. In a strong political statement, he criticized both the Greek junta that allegedly instigated the coup against him and the Turkish forces that invaded Cyprus. An official of the Greek archdiocese, which has sought to remain politically neutral on Cyprus, said Archbishop Makarios had not been invited to speak but did so on his own initiative when Archbishop Iakovos extended him greetings at the close of the service. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (1-NY-7D-74-T)URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:360983
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Title:Description:Text transcribed from caption: PC-45814 FRANCO AND THE PRINCE MADRID -- Generalissimo Francisco Franco, right, now ailing with phlebitis, is shown in a 1971 photo with his designated successor, 36-year-old Prince Juan Carlos de Borbon. The 81-year-old general handed over temporarily his powers to the prince (July 19) after his condition suffered a “deterioration” due to gastric complications. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (B-NY-7D-74-B)URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:360982
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Description:Text transcribed from caption: PC-45809 WARNS AGAINST “POLITICAL” GOSPEL LAUSANNE, Switzerland -- Addressing the opening plenary session of the International Congress on World Evangelization, evangelist Billy Graham warned some 2,700 evangelical leaders that “to tie the Gospel to any political system, secular program or society is wrong and will only serve to divert the Gospel.” Mr. Graham, honorary chairman of the congress, also cautioned against denying social responsibility. “It is true that this is not our priority mission,” he said. “However, it is equally true that Scripture calls us time and again to do all in our power to alleviate human suffering and to correct injustices.” Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (F-LAU-7D-74-W)URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:360981
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Title:Description:Text transcribed from caption: PC-45693 PILGRIMAGE OF HOPE PHILADELPHIA -- An interfaith group, including India’s famed Mother Teresa, listens to Msgr. Philip Dowling (right), former executive of the Cardinal’s Commission on Human Relations, address the more than 5,000 participants in Philadelphia’s Pilgrimage of Hope. From left are: Stanley Culbreth, president of the Philadelphia Chapter of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference; Mrs. Abraham Joshua Heschel, widow of the late rabbi; Mother Teresa, and Cardinal John Krol, Archbishop of Philadelphia. The mile-long, candlelight pilgrimage, a major event in the Philadelphia Roman Catholic Archdiocese’s observance of the Holy Year, featured readings and reflections by Protestant, Jewish and Catholic clergymen as the procession stopped at a Methodist church, a monument to Jewish martyrs and the Catholic Cathedral of SS. Peter and Paul. The procession began at Philadelphia’s City Hall and ended at the Art Museum where speakers dealt with the theme of reconciliation. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (JPF-PHI-6C-74-DS)URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:360977
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Description:Text transcribed from caption: PC-45691 DESPITE THE RAIN, SPIRITS SOAR SOUTH BEND, Ind. -- It may have been raining, but that didn’t dampen the spirits of those attending a general session of the 1974 International Conference on the Charismatic Renewal in the Catholic Church. These are but a few of the 30,000 who came long distances to attend the event at the University of Notre Dame for a weekend of prayer, healing services and spiritual fellowship. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (JR-SB-6C-74-DS)URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:360976
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Title:Description:Text transcribed from caption: PC-45910 ECUMENICAL HOSPITALITY WEST BERLIN -- Dr. Philip A. Potter, general secretary of the World Council of Churches, chats with Roman Catholic Bishop Friedrich M. Rintelen of East Germany (right) outside West Berlin’s Kaiser Wilhelm Church following the opening worship service of the WCC’s Central Committee meeting. The Catholic prelate was a guest of honor at the meeting. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (C-GEN-8C-74-DS)URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:360975
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Description:Text transcribed from caption: P-45909 AT CENTRAL COMMITTEE MEETING WEST BERLIN -- The annual meeting of the Central Committee of the World Council of Churches brought church leaders from all over the world to West Berlin for the committee’s last meeting before the 1975 WCC General Assembly. In top photo, from left, are: the Rev. Sang Park of Korea; Pauline Webb of Britain, vice-chairman of the Central Committee; Dr. Kiyoko T. Cho of Japan, a WCC president; and Dr. W.A. Visser ‘t Hooft, former general secretary and honorary president of the Council. Below, from left, are: anthropologist Dr. Margaret Mead; Central Committee members Oberlandeskirchenrat Ulrich von Bruck of the Lutheran Church of Saxony and Bishop D. Kurt Scharf of the Evangelical Church of Berlin-Brandenburg; and Dr. Paul Albrecht, a WCC staff member. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (C-GEN-8C-74-DS)URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:360974
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Description:Text transcribed from caption: P-45892 RUSSIAN BAPTISTS ATTEND YOUTH MEETING PORTLAND, Ore. -- Baptist leaders from Russia visit Portland’s First Baptist Church during a break between events of the 8th Baptist Youth World Conference. From left are: Valentine Ryndina, an interpreter at Baptist headquarters in Moscow; Alexsei M. Bichkov, minister and general secretary of the All-Union Council of Evangelical Christians-Baptists of U.S.S.R.; Leonid F. Ckatchenko, choir leader of Moscow Baptist Church; and Michael J. Zhidkov, minister of Moscow Baptist Church and vice-president of the All-Union Council of Evangelical Christians-Baptists of U.S.S.R. During the Baptist World Alliance-sponsored meeting, attended by more than 5,000 delegates from 50 nations, Mr. Bichkov said that the Soviet government does not bother Baptists and there is “increasing mutual understanding” between church and state. “Sometimes an extreme atheist violates our rights,” he said.” Then the church sends up a petition to us and we send a petition to the government, and our rights are protected.” Baptists report that there are more than 550,000 Baptists in the Soviet Union, which is third in the world in the number of Baptist believers, after the U.S. and India. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (WR-POR-8C-74-DS)URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:360973
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Title:Description:Text transcribed from caption: P-45876 TEARS FOR A HOSTAGE HUNTSVILLE, Texas -- Mrs. Ann Flemming, a librarian at the Texas State Prison in Huntsville who was held hostage by convicts for 11 days, breaks into tears after attending the funeral of Julia Standley, one of the two hostages who were killed during a shoot-out as the three armed convicts attempted to escape. Giving Mrs. Flemming comfort is Mrs. Novella Bollard, another of the hostages. On the day following the bloody end of the longest standoff in American prison history, Mrs. Flemming was back teaching a Sunday School class at the First Baptist Church in Huntsville. She said that she felt no bitterness towards her captors, and had no criticism of the way the Texas Department of Correction handled the siege. But the librarian said she planned to quit her job at the prison, a job she began just four weeks before becoming a hostage. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (A-HUN-8B-74-DS)URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:360972
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Description:Text transcribed from caption: P-45873 LWF EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE MEETING NORTHFIELD, Minn. -- Members of the Lutheran World Federation Executive Committee gathered at St. Olaf College in Northfield, Minn., for their annual meeting. Among the actions taken by the committee was a resolution supporting two black African churchmen in their dispute with Prime Minister John Vorster of South Africa over “continuing torture of political prisoners in Namibia.” The LWF leaders also had a lengthy debate on what, if anything, they should say about the doctrinal dispute which threatens to split the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod, which is not a member of the LWF. In the top photo, Minnesota Gov. Wendell R. Anderson greets committee members. From left are: Gov. Anderson; Dr. David E. Preus of Minneapolis, president of the American Lutheran Church; Dr. Soritua A.E. Nababan of Jakarta, Indonesia, first vice-president of the LWF; and Dr. Mikko Juva of Helsinki, president of the federation. Below, Dr. Carl H. Mau, Jr. (center) of New York, newly-elected LWF general secretary, chats with Dr. Gottfried Klapper (left) of the West German National Committee of the LWF and the Rev. Karl-Heinz Schmale, executive secretary of the Federation of Evangelical Lutheran Churches in Southern Africa. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (C-GEN-8B-74-DS)URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:360971
