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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TV for Sunday school.
Description:
Text transcribed from caption: P-30354 TV FOR SUNDAY SCHOOL MONTGOMERY, Ala. -- Sunday school lesson in a new format -- via closed-circuit television. Here Chaplain (Lt. Col.) Conway Lanford, religious education supervisor at Maxwell Air Force Base, Montgomery, Ala., is shown as he delivered a Sunday school message for children of base personnel. Devoted to the SOS (Share Our Substance) program of Church World Service, the talk was taped and then piped into the Air Command and Staff College building which is used for Protestant Sunday school classes. The Air University Television Department cooperated in the program, believed to be the first use of closed-circuit TV in a U.S. Sunday school. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (JJM-NY-12B-63-W)
Creator:
National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Church World Service. (publisher)
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., United States. Air Force--Chaplains., National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Church World Service., Air University (U.S.), Lanford, Conway.
Topics:
Church and mass media--Alabama--Montgomery., Sunday schools--Alabama--Montgomery., Sunday schools--Protestant churches.
Geographic subjects:
Montgomery (Ala.), Maxwell Air Force Base (Ala.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:352987
Title:
Church World Service press release, 1963.
Creator:
National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Church World Service. (author)
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., United States. Air Force--Chaplains., National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Church World Service., Air University (U.S.), Lanford, Conway.
Topics:
Church and mass media--Alabama--Montgomery., Sunday schools--Alabama--Montgomery., Sunday schools--Protestant churches.
Geographic subjects:
Montgomery (Ala.), Maxwell Air Force Base (Ala.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:352721

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