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:
This is our land, now.
Description:
A European refugee family looks out over Boston Harbor.
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., Church World Service.
Topics:
Refugees--Europe., Refugee families--Europe., Missions, Harbors--Massachusetts--Boston.
Geographic subjects:
Boston (Mass.), Boston Harbor (Mass.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:148562
Title:
DPs welcomed to Boston.
Description:
Boston civic and church officials greet a refugee mother and daughter from Czechoslovakia.
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., Church World Service., Catholic Church. Archdiocese of Boston (Mass.), Catholic Church--Massachusetts--Boston., Doyle, James P., Hickey, Augustine F., Skramlikowa, Dianne., Skramlikowa, Tatiana.
Topics:
Refugees--Czechoslovakia., Refugee families--Czechoslovakia., Missions
Geographic subjects:
Boston (Mass.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:148532
Title:
DPs to Priest: 'Glad to be here!'
Description:
Monsignor Swanstrom of the National Catholic Resettlement Council welcomes a refugee family from Czechoslovakia.
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., Church World Service., Catholic Church. Archdiocese of Boston (Mass.), Catholic Church--Massachusetts--Boston., National Catholic Resettlement Council (U.S.), Swanstrom, Edward., Ouhrabka, Marie., Ouhrabka, Jan.
Topics:
Refugees--Czechoslovakia., Refugee families--Czechoslovakia., Missions, Catholic Church and world politics.
Geographic subjects:
Boston (Mass.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:148442
Title:
Thanksgiving food donations.
Description:
Boston, Mass.--As a Thank-Offering, parishioners across the country contribute food to their churches for distribution among the needy and shut-ins so that all may have a Happy Thanksgiving. In this scene, food donated to a Protestant church here is blessed by its pastor before being distributed. Looking on are Sunday school children dressed as Puritans.
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives.
Topics:
Thanksgiving Day--Massachusetts--20th century.
Geographic subjects:
Boston (Mass.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:7378

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