• 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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  • 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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    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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    problems; it continues today, after numerous name changes, as Quaker Peace & Social Witness. Envisioned as a service outlet for conscientious objectors...
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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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  • 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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    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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  • 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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    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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    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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    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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    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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  • 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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    American Friends Service Committee (category Quaker charities)
    Religious Society of Friends (Quaker)-founded organization working for peace and social justice in the United States and around the world. AFSC was founded...
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    William Brown (veterinarian) (category Quaker activists)
    anti-vivisectionist, and advocate for animal rights, temperance, and peace. A prominent Quaker, he was actively engaged in religious, social, and political work...
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  • Lutheranism, Methodism, Moravianism, Quakerism, Pentecostalism, Plymouth Brethren, Reformed Christianity, and Waldensianism. Reformed Christianity itself...
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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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    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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    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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    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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    Jocelyn Bell Burnell (category Quakers from Northern Ireland)
    Bell Burnell served on the Quaker Peace and Social Witness Testimonies Committee, which produced Engaging with the Quaker Testimonies: a Toolkit in February...
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    The Quaker movement began in England in the 17th Century. Small Quaker groups were planted in various places across Europe during this early period (For...
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    Testimony of simplicity (category Quaker practices)
    or Quakers) to testify or bear witness to their beliefs that a person ought to live a simple life in order to focus on what is most important, and ignore...
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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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  • 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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    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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