Quaker Peace & Social Witness (QPSW), previously known as the Friends Service Council, and then as Quaker Peace and Service, is one of the central committees...
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the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) for peace and against participation in war. Like other Quaker testimonies, it is not a "belief", but a description...
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Committee (AFSC), the Quaker United Nations Offices, Quaker Peace and Social Witness, Friends Committee on Scouting, the Quaker Peace Centre in Cape Town...
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Eric Baker (activist) (category British Quakers)
(Quakers), and served as head of the Quaker Peace and Social Witness, an organization of Quakers in Britain working to promote and practise the Quaker...
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Queensland Police Service, Australia Quaker Peace and Service, former name of Quaker Peace and Social Witness, a UK Quakers organisation committee Quincy Public...
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believed were bound for Saudi Arabia. Walton is a Quaker and used to work for Quaker Peace and Social Witness. In September 2017 Walton was a key organiser...
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Britain Yearly Meeting (redirect from Quakers in Britain)
development for Quakers in Britain, activities for children and young people. Quaker Peace and Social Witness deals with Quakers' peace and development work...
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service; it continues today, after numerous name changes, as Quaker Peace & Social Witness. Envisioned as a service outlet for conscientious objectors...
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Peace and Social Witness. FWCC holds consultative status with the United Nations Economic and Social Council, and the Quaker UN Offices in New York and Geneva...
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Quakers (or Friends) are members of a Christian religious movement that started in England as a form of Protestantism in the 17th century, and has spread...
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present, acting as both celebrants (after a fashion) and witnesses. Outsiders sometimes criticised Quaker couples for living in sin because they married each...
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List of American Friends Service Committee Nobel nominees (category Nobel Peace Prize)
Committee (AFSC) and the Quaker Peace and Social Witness (QPSW) (previously known as the Friends Service Council) jointly received the Nobel Peace Prize on behalf...
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families for Nobel Peace Prize". The Irish Post. Archived from the original on 30 January 2023. Retrieved 30 January 2023. "Quaker groups nominate Florida...
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of the world's Quakers. Latin American Friends are concentrated in Bolivia and Central America. Most of these Friends are evangelical and are affiliated...
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Yearly Meeting; whilst Quaker Peace and Social Witness is an outward-looking department, mainly working for peace and social action outside of the Yearly...
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The Quaker Tapestry consists of 77 panels illustrating the history of Quakerism from the 17th century to the present day. The idea of Quaker Anne Wynn-Wilson...
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Quaker views on women have always been considered progressive in their own time (beginning in the 17th century), and in the late 19th century this tendency...
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List of Christian denominations (section Quaker)
Lutheranism, Methodism, Moravianism, Quakerism, Pentecostalism, Plymouth Brethren, Reformed Christianity, and Waldensianism. Reformed Christianity itself...
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Gurneyite (category History of Quakerism)
schism in Quakerism. In general, Gurneyite Quakers follow evangelical Christian doctrines on Jesus Christ, the Atonement, and the Bible. Quakerism's first...
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Inward light (category Quaker practices)
within us, Light within, and inner light are related phrases commonly used within the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) as metaphors for Christ's...
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Friends World Committee for Consultation (category Quaker organizations established in the 20th century)
and Friends are active in attempts to build peace at the grass roots in this troubled area. Britain Yearly Meeting's Quaker Peace and Social Witness (QPSW)...
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Testimony of equality (category Quaker practices)
or course of conduct by a member of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) tending to assert or promote equality of persons, arising from the Friends'...
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There are about 180,000 members of the Religious Society of Friends, or Quakers, in Africa. African Friends make up around 49% of Friends internationally...
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Conservative Friends (category Quaker organizations based in the United States)
are members of the Wilburite branch of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers). In the United States, Conservative Friends belong to three Yearly Meetings:...
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significant changes in the life of the believer. In the Methodist, the Quaker and the Holiness Pentecostal traditions of Christianity, the second work of...
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Richmond Declaration (category Quaker practices)
Christian basics", as well as "core Quaker beliefs about simplicity, oaths, peace, and sacraments." Chuck Fager, a Liberal Quaker, claimed that the Richmond Declaration...
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arm of the Quakers Quaker Peace & Social Witness (QPSW) the corresponding Quaker department in Britain John Woolman College of Active Peace Reverend Sun...
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Danilo Dolci (category Recipients of the Lenin Peace Prize)
the British Friends Service Council, now called Quaker Peace and Social Witness, on behalf of all Quakers worldwide. Among those who publicly voiced support...
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Testimony of integrity (redirect from Testimony to integrity and truth)
Testimony to integrity and truth refers to the way many members of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) testify or bear witness to their belief that...
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a New York prison in 1975 American Friends Service Committee, Quaker peace and social justice organization founded in 1917 Amnesty International, human...
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