You are here
Religious News Service Photographs
Primary tabs
-
-
Description:Text transcribed from caption: P-29790 ‘OPERATION SANDWICH’ AIDS HUNGRY WASHINGTON MARCHERS NEW YORK -- Eighty-thousand cheese sandwiches, with apples and pieces of marble cake, were packed into lunchboxes at Riverside Church in New York City, then rushed in refrigerated trucks to the nation’s capital for the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. The project to “feed the multitude” of hungry marchers was sponsored by the National Council of Churches’ Commission on Religion and Race. At top, Dr. Robert W. Spike, executive director of the commission, and Dr. Anna Arnold Hedgeman, NCC coordinator of March activities, dedicate the lunches “for the nourishment of thousands” who went to Washington “to say with their bodies and souls that ‘we shall overcome,’” racial injustice. In the bottom photo, some of more than 400 volunteers -- Catholics and Jews as well as Protestants -- assemble the lunches. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (1-NY-8E-63-NBM)Creator:National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. (publisher)Subject names:Religious News Service--Archives., March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom (1963 : Washington, D.C.), National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Commission on Religion and Race., Riverside Church (New York, N.Y.)Topics:Civil rights movements--United States., Civil rights demonstrations--Washington (D.C.), Civil rights--Religious aspects--Christianity., Luncheons--New York (State)--New York., Sandwiches--New York (State)--New York.Geographic subjects:Morningside Heights (New York, N.Y.), Washington (D.C.)URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:358094
-
-
Description:Text transcribed from caption: P-29790 ‘OPERATION SANDWICH’ AIDS HUNGRY WASHINGTON MARCHERS NEW YORK -- Eighty-thousand cheese sandwiches, with apples and pieces of marble cake, were packed into lunchboxes at Riverside Church in New York City, then rushed in refrigerated trucks to the nation’s capital for the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. The project to “feed the multitude” of hungry marchers was sponsored by the National Council of Churches’ Commission on Religion and Race. At top, Dr. Robert W. Spike, executive director of the commission, and Dr. Anna Arnold Hedgeman, NCC coordinator of March activities, dedicate the lunches “for the nourishment of thousands” who went to Washington “to say with their bodies and souls that ‘we shall overcome,’” racial injustice. In the bottom photo, some of more than 400 volunteers -- Catholics and Jews as well as Protestants -- assemble the lunches. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (1-NY-8E-63-NBM)Creator:National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. (publisher)Subject names:Religious News Service--Archives., March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom (1963 : Washington, D.C.), National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Commission on Religion and Race., Riverside Church (New York, N.Y.), Spike, Robert W. (Robert Warren), Hedgeman, Anna Arnold, 1899-1990.Topics:Civil rights movements--United States., Civil rights demonstrations--Washington (D.C.), Civil rights--Religious aspects--Christianity., Luncheons--New York (State)--New York., Sandwiches--New York (State)--New York., Benediction--New York (State)--New York., Civil rights workers--New York (State)--New York.Geographic subjects:Morningside Heights (New York, N.Y.), Washington (D.C.)URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:358093
-
-
Description:Text transcribed from caption: P-29748 NCC CHORUS REHEARSES FOR WASHINGTON MARCH NEW YORK -- “Freedom Songs,” which have become increasingly familiar across the nation with the accelerating pace of demonstrations for racial justice, were to have a place in the massive civil rights march on Washington, D.C., on Aug. 28. One musical group scheduled to take part in the demonstration was comprised of volunteers from the National Council of Churches staff in New York City. The chorus shown rehearsing above is lead [sic] by Merrill [Merritt] Hedgeman well-known concert artist. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (1-NY-8D-63-NBM)Creator:National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. (publisher)Subject names:Religious News Service--Archives., National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America., March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom (1963 : Washington, D.C.), Hedgeman, Merritt., Interchurch Center (New York, N.Y.)Topics:Civil rights movements--United States., Civil rights--Religious aspects--Christianity., Singing--New York (State)--New York., Music rehearsals--New York (State)--New York.Geographic subjects:Morningside Heights (New York, N.Y.)URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:358089
-
-
Description:Text transcribed from caption: PC-31800 CHRISTIAN-JEWISH RELATIONS AUTHORITY VISITS U.S. NEW YORK -- Dr. Gertrud Luckner, noted German Catholic scholar who has devoted most of her life to improving interreligious relations, and Rabbi Arthur Gilbert, staff consultant to the National Conference of Christians and Jews’ Religious Freedom and Public Affairs Project, examine a copy of a publication she edits, “Freiburger Rundbrief.” Dr. Luckner, who survived three years in a Nazi concentration camp and has been honored by Israel on many occasion for her assistance to Jews, was the guest at a reception held in New York as she arrived in the U.S. for a two-month lecture tour. Her publication, which is devoted to “promoting friendship between the old and new people of God under both the Old and New Testaments,” is sponsored by Catholics but also features articles by Protestants and Jews. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (FRE-NY-11B-64-NBM)Creator:National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. (publisher)Subject names:Religious News Service--Archives., Luckner, Gertrud., Gilbert, Arthur., National Conference of Christians and Jews., Catholic Church--Relations--Judaism.Topics:Ecumenical movement--New York (State)--New York., Rabbis--New York (State)--New York., Ecumenical movement--Germany., Women in church work--New York (State)--New York., Judaism--Relations--Christianity.Geographic subjects:New York (N.Y.)URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:356677
-
-
Description:Text transcribed from caption: P-31934 MOBILE MEDICAL UNIT DEDICATED NEW YORK -- Dr. Richard Steward, a missionary doctor attached to the United Andean Indian Mission, examines equipment in a $7,500 mobile medical unit which he and colleagues will use in mission work in Indian villages in the Ecuador mountains. Looking on is the Rev. John H. Sinclair, secretary of the UAIM, which coordinates the work in Ecuador of the Presbyterian Church in the U.S. (Southern), the United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A., the Evangelical United Brethren Church and the United Church of Christ. The unit was unveiled at a ceremony in New York. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (1-NY-12C-64-MH)Creator:National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. (publisher)Subject names:Religious News Service--Archives., Steward, Richard., United Andean Indian Mission., Sinclair, John H., 1924-Topics:Missionaries--Ecuador., Missions, Medical--Ecuador., Physicians--New York (State)--New York., Indigenous peoples--Missions--Andes Region., Interdenominational cooperation--New York (State)--New York., Presbyterian Church--Missions--Ecuador.Geographic subjects:New York (N.Y.), Ecuador.URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:356658
-
-
Description:Text transcribed from caption: P-31787 UGANDA OFFICIAL HONORED BY NCC NEW YORK -- Dr. Richard Green Katongole (left), Permanent Secretary of Uganda’s Ministry of Information, Broadcasting and Tourism, was honored in New York at a luncheon given by the National Council of Churches’ Radio, Visual Education and Mass Communication Committee. He is shown here with Dr. R.H. Edwin Espy, NCC general secretary. From 1951 to 1953 Dr. Katongole studied in the United States on a scholarship awarded by the Council’s Department of World Literacy and Christian Literature. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (1-NY-11A-64-NBM)Creator:National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. (publisher)Subject names:Religious News Service--Archives., Katongole, Richard Green., Uganda. Ministry of Information, Broadcasting and Tourism., National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America., Espy, R. H. Edwin.Topics:Church and mass media--New York (State)--New York., Public relations--Uganda.Geographic subjects:New York (N.Y.)URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:356627
-
-
Title:Description:Text transcribed from caption: P-32195 SENIOR AFRICAN PASTORS NEW YORK -- Certificates marking completion of a nine-month African Senior Pastors’ Institute in the U.S. were presented to 10 African clergymen at the National Council of Churches’ headquarters in New York. Jointly arranged by the NCC and the World Council of Churches, the institute included seminary study, conferences and three months of local parish work. From left to right are the Rev. Joseph Adeke of the Anglican Church in Uganda; the Rev. Geoffrey Ngare, Presbyterian pastor from Ghana; the Rev. David Gana, Presbyterian pastor from West Cameroon; the Rev. Kermit Overton, fraternal worker in Cameroon for the United Presbyterian Church and director of the Institute; the Rev. Charles Kittoe, principal of Freeman College in Ghana where Methodist lay workers and catechists are trained; the Rev. Emmanuel Agyako-Mensah, Presbyterian pastor in Ghana; the Rev. Daudi Udali, Anglican pastor in Kenya; the Rev. Wesley Manda, Presbyterian pastor in Malawi; the Rev. Hezron Rachier, Anglican pastor in Kenya, and the Rev. Laadan Kamau, Anglican pastor in Kenya. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (1-NY-2D-65-W)Creator:National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. (publisher)Subject names:Religious News Service--Archives., National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America., World Council of Churches., Adeke, Joseph., Ngare, Geoffrey., Adiku, Ehrenfried Tongo., Gana, David., Overton, Kermit Everett, 1924-1996., United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A.--Clergy., Kittoe, Charles Dawson., Agyako-Mensah, Emmanuel., Udali, Daudi., Manda, Wesley., Rachier, Hezron., Kamau, Laadan.Topics:Clergy--New York (State)--New York., Clergy, Black--New York (State)--New York., Ecumenical movement--New York (State)--New York., Christian education--Study and teaching--New York (State)--New York.Geographic subjects:New York (N.Y.)URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:355911
-
-
Description:Text transcribed from caption: P-31985 DR. WEIGLE HONORED FOR BIBLE WORK NEW YORK -- Dr. Luther A. Weigle (right), dean emeritus of Yale University Divinity School and chairman of the committee which produced the Revised Standard Version (RSV) of the Bible, was honored in New York as a new RSV Bible Room was formally opened at the Interchurch Center. A plaque paying tribute to his 60 years of service as ecumenical leader and “scholar, teacher and administrator” is examined by Dr. Weigle with his daughter, Mrs. William Quillian, Jr., of Lynchburgh [sic], Va., and Dr. Edmund Wagner, chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Interchurch Center. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (1-NY-1A-65-NBM)Creator:National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. (publisher)Subject names:Religious News Service--Archives., Weigle, Luther A. (Luther Allan), 1880-1976., National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Revised Standard Version Bible Committee., Interchurch Center (New York, N.Y.), Wagner, Edmund F., Quillian, Margaret Weigle.Topics:Bible. English--Versions--Revised Standard Version., Plaques, plaquettes--New York (State)--New York., Ecumenical movement--New York (State)--New York., Bible--Translating.Geographic subjects:New York (N.Y.), Harlem (New York, N.Y.)URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:355892
-
-
Description:Text transcribed from caption: P-30601 AWARD-WINNING SCOUTS TOUR RELIGIOUS, GOVERNMENT CENTERS NEW YORK -- National Council of Churches activities are explained by Dr. R.H. Edwin Espy, general secretary (second from left), to award-winning Eagle Scouts on a tour of religious and government centers in New York and Washington, D.C, during Boy Scout Week, Feb. 7-13. The Scouts, Mike Michigami (left) of Portland, Ore., and Jim Adamson of Geneseo, N.Y., and 10 others were chosen for the tour because of scouting achievements, scholastic records and service to their churches. Accompanying the group was Jim Hess, national assistant director of civic relationships for the Boy Scouts of America. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (1-NY-2C-64-NBM)Creator:National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. (publisher)Subject names:Religious News Service--Archives., National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America., Espy, R. H. Edwin., Boy Scouts of America., Michigami, Mike., Adamson, Jim., Hess, Jim.Topics:Eagle Scouts., Boy Scouts.Geographic subjects:New York (N.Y.), Washington (D.C.)URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:353806
-
-
Description:Alternate caption.Creator:National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. (publisher)Subject names:Religious News Service--Archives., National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America., Espy, R. H. Edwin., Boy Scouts of America., Michigami, Mike., Adamson, Jim., Hess, Jim.Topics:Eagle Scouts., Boy Scouts.Geographic subjects:New York (N.Y.), Washington (D.C.)URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:353618
-
-
Description:Press release from the National Council of Churches.Creator:National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. (publisher)Subject names:Religious News Service--Archives., Webb, Lillian Friar., National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America., Blackburn, Malcolm., African Methodist Episcopal Church--Clergy., Macedonia African Methodist Episcopal Church (Jamaica, New York, N.Y.)Topics:African American clergy--New York (State)--New York., Women clergy--New York (State)--New York., African American women clergy--New York (State)--New York., Clergy--New York (State)--New York.Geographic subjects:New York (N.Y.)URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:348639
-
-
Description:Text transcribed from caption: P-30791 EASTER DAWN SERVICE AT RADIO CITY MUSIC HALL NEW YORK -- More than 5,500 persons were in New York’s Radio City Music Hall at 7 a.m. Easter morning to take part in the 45th annual Easter Dawn Service sponsored by the Manhattan Division of the Protestant Council of the City of New York. Musical selections were provided by the Hope College Chapel Choir of Holland, Mich., (top photo) and the “Sponono Singers” of South Africa, members of the cast of the Broadway play, “Sponono,” by Alan Paton and Krishna Shah. Among those leading the hour-long service (bottom photo) were, from left to right: Philip Huston, a Broadway actor and lay member of St. Clement’s Episcopal church in Manhattan; the Rev. L.E. Terrell, pastor of Manhattan’s Union Baptist church; Dr. Lawrence L. Durgin, president of the Protestant Council’s Manhattan Division and pastor of Broadway Congregational church; Dr. Walter E. Bock, pastor of St. Peter’s Lutheran church in New York (at podium), and Dr. Dan M. Potter, executive director of the Protestant Council (far right). The sermon was delivered by Dr. Richard Allen Hildebrand, pastor of Bethel African Methodist Episcopal church in Manhattan, who declared that the Easter message calls on all Americans to work for equal rights for all citizens. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (PC-NY-3E-64-NBM)Creator:National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. (publisher)Subject names:Religious News Service--Archives., Protestant Council of the City of New York., Radio City Music Hall (New York, N.Y.), Huston, Philip, 1910-1980., Terrell, L.E., Durgin, Lawrence L., Bock, Walter E., Potter, Dan M., National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America.Topics:Easter--New York (State)--New York., Easter service., Protestant churches--Clergy., Ecumenical movement--New York (State)--New York., Interdenominational cooperation--New York (State)--New York.Geographic subjects:Manhattan (New York, N.Y.), New York (N.Y.)URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:348366
-
-
Description:Text transcribed from caption: P-30791 EASTER DAWN SERVICE AT RADIO CITY MUSIC HALL NEW YORK -- More than 5,500 persons were in New York’s Radio City Music Hall at 7 a.m. Easter morning to take part in the 45th annual Easter Dawn Service sponsored by the Manhattan Division of the Protestant Council of the City of New York. Musical selections were provided by the Hope College Chapel Choir of Holland, Mich., (top photo) and the “Sponono Singers” of South Africa, members of the cast of the Broadway play, “Sponono,” by Alan Paton and Krishna Shah. Among those leading the hour-long service (bottom photo) were, from left to right: Philip Huston, a Broadway actor and lay member of St. Clement’s Episcopal church in Manhattan; the Rev. L.E. Terrell, pastor of Manhattan’s Union Baptist church; Dr. Lawrence L. Durgin, president of the Protestant Council’s Manhattan Division and pastor of Broadway Congregational church; Dr. Walter E. Bock, pastor of St. Peter’s Lutheran church in New York (at podium), and Dr. Dan M. Potter, executive director of the Protestant Council (far right). The sermon was delivered by Dr. Richard Allen Hildebrand, pastor of Bethel African Methodist Episcopal church in Manhattan, who declared that the Easter message calls on all Americans to work for equal rights for all citizens. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (PC-NY-3E-64-NBM)Creator:National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. (publisher)Subject names:Religious News Service--Archives., Protestant Council of the City of New York., Radio City Music Hall (New York, N.Y.), Hope College. Chapel Choir., National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America.Topics:Easter--New York (State)--New York., Easter service., Choirs (Music)--New York (State)--New York., Ecumenical movement--New York (State)--New York., Interdenominational cooperation--New York (State)--New York.Geographic subjects:Manhattan (New York, N.Y.), New York (N.Y.)URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:348365
-
-
Description:Harper Sibley of the Church World Service is presented with a portrait bust of himself.Creator:National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. (publisher)Subject names:Religious News Service--Archives., National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Church World Service., Sibley, Harper, 1885-1959., Sibley, Harper, 1885-1959--Statues., Reznak, Joseph T., Elliott, Roland., Wilson, R. Norris.Topics:Refugees--Czechoslovakia., Missions--Interdenominational cooperation., Busts.Geographic subjects:New York (N.Y.)URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:151497
-
-
Title:Description:National presidents and executive directors of major U.S. Protestant, Catholic and Jewish laymen's organizations met to discuss mutual concerns and plan future contacts.Creator:National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. (publisher)Subject names:Religious News Service--Archives., Catholic Church\u2014Relations., Liebowitz, Seymour M., Robinson, Jackie, 1919-1972., Donnelly, John F., Lebow, Sylvan., Work, Martin., Calame, Don L.Topics:Laity--New York (State)--New York., Protestant churches--Relations., Judaism--Relations.Geographic subjects:New York (N.Y.)URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:151392
-
-
Description:Adlai E. Stevenson (second from right), U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, hailed long support of the International organization by church groups as he took part in 1963 ceremonies dedicating the Church Center for the United Nations in New York.Creator:National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. (publisher)Subject names:Religious News Service--Archives., United Nations--New York (State)--New York., Stevenson, Adlai E. (Adlai Ewing), 1900-1965., United Nations. Secretary-General (1961-1971 : Thant), Ensley, Francis Gerald, 1907-1976., United Nations--Officials and employees, American., Miller, J. Irwin (Joseph Irwin), 1909-2004., Rusk, Dean, 1909-1994., Thant, U, 1909-1974.Topics:Ambassadors--United States.Geographic subjects:New York (N.Y.)URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:151326
-
-
Title:Description:National Council of Churches press release regarding Harper Sibely of the Church World Service receiving a portrait bust of himself.Creator:National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. (publisher)Subject names:Religious News Service--Archives., National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Church World Service., Sibley, Harper, 1885-1959., Sibley, Harper, 1885-1959--Statues., Reznak, Joseph T., Elliott, Roland., Wilson, R. Norris.Topics:Refugees--Czechoslovakia., Missions--Interdenominational cooperation., Busts.Geographic subjects:New York (N.Y.)URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:150771
-
-
Description:National Council of the Churches of Christ press release, October 26, 1954. Highlights the stories of refugees who come from Europe to resettle in America with support from the Church World Service.Creator:National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. (publisher)Subject names:Religious News Service--Archives., Church World Service.Topics:Church work with refugees--New York (State)., Refugees--Europe., Refugees--Europe.Geographic subjects:New York (State), Europe.URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:147286
-
-
Description:National Council of the Churches of Christ press release, October 26, 1954. Highlights the stories of refugees who come from Europe to resettle in America with support from the Church World Service.Creator:National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. (publisher)Subject names:Religious News Service--Archives., Church World Service.Topics:Church work with refugees--New York (State)., Refugees--Europe., Refugees--Europe.Geographic subjects:New York (State), Europe.URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:147270
