Church World Service

Church World Service

      worldwide relief and rehabilitation agency, from 1951 to 1963 a department of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the U.S.A., (National Council of the Churches of Christ in the U.S.A.) and from 1964 incorporated in the Division of Overseas Ministries of the council. Organized in 1946 as an independent agency, it took over and integrated the work of three relief organizations established earlier by U.S. Protestant churches. It provides emergency and rehabilitation aid to those in need outside the United States and helps to resettle displaced persons in that country.

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