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:
Archeologist challenges ideas about ritual killing of young.
Description:
Article written for the Religious News Service.
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., University of Chicago. Oriental Institute., Stager, Lawrence E.
Topics:
Child sacrifice--Carthage (Extinct city), Archaeology--Carthage (Extinct city)
Geographic subjects:
Chicago (Ill.), Carthage (Extinct city), Qarṭājannah (Tunisia)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:149197
Title:
Archeologist challenges ideas about ritual killings.
Description:
Archeologist Lawrence Stager (left) of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, pauses a moment with one of his graduate student co-workers on their most recent excavation this past summer of the burial ground of the ancient city of Carthage in what is now Tunisia. The urn near Stager's hand is typical of the burial urns that contain the incinerated remains of the children sacrificed to the gods by the Carthaginians.
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., University of Chicago. Oriental Institute., Stager, Lawrence E.
Topics:
Child sacrifice--Carthage (Extinct city), Archaeology--Carthage (Extinct city)
Geographic subjects:
Chicago (Ill.), Carthage (Extinct city), Qarṭājannah (Tunisia)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:148580

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