Meeting Minute

We write to you as fellow believers who share a common commitment to human dignity, compassion, and justice. We address you with respect for the important role Christian churches play in Alabama’s moral and civic life, and with concern about the growing distance between our shared values and the reality facing immigrant families in our communities today.

Guided by the Spirit of love and Truth, the Jacksonville Quaker Worship Group expresses its anguish, shared by many across the world, over the ongoing war in Iran and Lebanon and its hope for peace, justice, and reconciliation.

As people of faith who believe that the Divine dwells within every human being, we bear witness to the devastating injustices perpetrated by current immigration enforcement practices in the United States

As members of Durham Friends Meeting, we feel compelled to speak out for the rights and dignity of our immigrant and refugee neighbors.

As members of Raleigh Friends Meeting, we feel compelled to speak out for the rights and dignity of our immigrant and refugee neighbors.

We call on the American people and government to end the US destruction of the Iranian people, their homes, schools, health facilities, places of worship and of commerce.

We unequivocally condemn the attacks on Iran in March 2026 and demand the immediate cessation of all attacks and the withdrawal of the U.S. military from the area. We grieve over the loss of life, the human suffering, the damage to the world economy, and the environmental damage.

As a community of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers), we are disturbed and deeply concerned about the recent violence in the Middle East.

Our Quaker community stands in witness and opposition to the drumbeats of war, authoritarianism, and supremacist philosophies coming from the Executive Branch of the current United States government.

Like many around the world, members and attenders of the Walla Walla Friends Meeting are deeply disturbed by the US and Israeli attacks on Iran and by the US assassination of Iranian government leaders.

The very threat of intrusion of government agents in our sacred places not only diminishes our religious practice but also discourages our most vulnerable neighbors from joining us.

In a Meeting for Worship with a Concern Business during Tenth Month (October) 2025, SEYM members expressed solidarity with the Miccosukee Tribe of Indians in Florida in calling for the immediate closure of the detention facility to preserve the air quality, drinking water supply, and the sacred ecological balance vital to the Miccosukee way of life.

Sierra-Cascades Yearly Meeting of Friends believes in the inherent sacredness of every person, from every place.

Sierra-Cascades Yearly Meeting of Friends (SCYMF) rejoices in the presence, participation, and Spirit-guided leadership of transgender (trans*) people in our communities.

As Quakers, we believe all people are equal and deserving of the same rights. We strongly condemn the inaccurate, dangerous statements made by the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., as well as the plan to put autistic people on a national list.

Hartford Monthly Meeting of Friends (Quakers) strongly condemns the United States’ use of military force to sink boats and kill individuals along the coasts of Venezuela and Columbia.

At a called Meeting for Business, Greenwich Monthly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends minuted support for Philadelphia Yearly Meeting’s recent corporate request to block the DHS federal policy that allows immigration enforcement officials to enter houses of worship.

Millville Meeting with this statement expresses its support for the separate lawsuits that our umbrella organizations, Philadelphia Yearly Meeting and Friends General Conference, along with other Quaker, Christian, Unitarian Universalist, Jewish, and Sikh organizations have undertaken against the federal government’s new policy under this Trump Administration regarding ICE raids at houses of worship and other “sensitive places” that undocumented immigrants have used until now to meet essential religious and secular needs.

As Quakers, Philadelphia Yearly Meeting believes that there is that of God, the Light, Spirit, within every person. We receive the gifts of service and care from many of our members who are Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, Intersex and Asexual (LGBTQIA+) and value all as beloved members of our community.

Medford Monthly Meeting has recently added an expanded social justice minute to our racial justice minute of 2021. During this process the Meeting made minimal changes to the original minute and decided to keep them as two separate minutes.