Five Quaker organizations recently issued a joint statement on migration. “A Quaker Statement on Migration” draws on foundations the Religious Society of Friends and their work with migrants and on migration.
According to David Bucura, coordinator of the African Great Lakes Initiative, “Kenya is in tension and is hot in some places now. There is big tension before the elections.” AGLI is a project of the Friends Peace Teams which supports peace activities in the Great Lakes region of Africa.
In this QuakerSpeak video, former FCNL Clerk Dorsey Green explores her experience clerking the General Committee. She explains the difference between everyone agreeing and finding the sense of the meeting.
This morning, I put on my coat and joined FCNL staff on the sidewalk facing the Hart Senate Building. For 17 minutes, we joined the hundreds of thousands of school children, teachers, parents and allies all over the world who walked out of their classrooms and places of work, and with their bodies and voices, said enough is enough.
In war, civilians always pay the highest price. As the crisis in Israel and Palestine deepens following the attack by Hamas on Israel and Israel’s retaliatory violence, our voices are needed.
The Friends Committee on National Legislation, along with nine other Quaker organizations around the world, announced today their disengagement from X, the social media platform formerly known as Twitter. Globally, this move within Quaker circles has come to be known as the eXodus and it has been a subject of much discernment.
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