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Story of an RNS Photo: The Sibley's Welcome the Krieg Family

August 19, 2022

In 2019, with grant support from the National Endowment for the Humanities, PHS digitized nearly 500 images from the RNS photograph collection all of which are now viewable in Pearl. The photographs chosen for the project spanned various years, topic, faiths, and geographical locations, but all supported the Religious News Service’s mission to document...

Author: 
Allison
Tags: 
Religious News Service, Ecumenism, Church World Service, Refugees
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Now Processed: UPCUSA Emergency Ministry on Conscience and War Records

April 11, 2022
Cover of War, Peace, & Conscience: Resources for the Church's Ministry, 1970. [RG 533, Box 7, Folder 38]

The UPCUSA Emergency Ministry on Conscience and War (EMCW) Records have been processed as Record Group 533, and the guide to the records is now available: https://www.history.pcusa.org/collections/research-...

Author: 
Nick
Tags: 
Ecumenism, Vietnam War, Collections, Archival Processing
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Hurricane Fifi (1974) Relief Efforts in Honduras

March 8, 2022
Lifting device tilting up the front slab of a concrete home in a relocated village site for San Jose de los Laureles in the Sula Valley, Honduras. [Pearl ID: islandora:281898]

In mid-September 1974, the third-deadliest Atlantic hurricane in recorded history tore through nine countries in Central America and the...

Author: 
Gabe
Tags: 
Ecumenism, Disaster Relief, Church World Service
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CWS Response to Hurricane Flora (1963)

September 17, 2021
Hilltop view of Côtes-de-Fer after the passage of Hurricane Flora in 1963. The Disaster Team's tent unit can be seen to the left and the newly constructed housing units to the right. Many roofless dwellings can be seen throughout. [Pearl ID: islandora:179435]

On August 29th, we watched as Hurricane Ida made landfall near

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Author: 
Gabe
Tags: 
Ecumenism, Disaster Relief, Church World Service
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Stories of RNS Photos: Refugees in the 20th Century

September 16, 2021
Cuban refugees get helping hand in Peru., 1981. [Pearl ID: islandora:148508]

In 2019, with grant support from the National Endowment for the Humanities, PHS digitized nearly 500 images from the RNS photograph collection all of which are now...

Author: 
Allison
Tags: 
Religious News Service, Refugees, Ecumenism
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