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  • Elections in Kenya – Recommendations to the U.S. Government

    Update | June 20, 2017
    Friends in Kenya are calling on the U.S. government to take early action to prevent violence in Kenya’s upcoming presidential elections.
  • Statement on the Attacks on the World Trade Center, Pentagon, and Civilian Aircraft

    Statement | September 26, 2016
    FCNL wrote this statement the day after the September 11 attacks. Now and always, we seek a world free of war and the threat of war. We hold the victims, the survivors, their families, and all those affected in the Light.
  • Annual Meeting 2023: Justice Calls Us. Love Unites Us.

    Event - Annual Meeting |  -
    Our 2023 Annual Meeting brought together hundreds of Friends online and in Washington, D.C., to learn, lobby, worship, and chart FCNL’s future.
  • Jamie DeMarco

    Person | November 2, 2020
    Jamie is a member of Baltimore Yearly Meeting. He has served in many capacities in the Religious Society of Friend, including worked as a Young Fellow (2017 - 2018) at FCNL.
  • GOP Senator Stalls Trump Nominee Over Saudi Handling Of U.S. Aid For Starving Yemenis

    Update | March 7, 2018

    “[It’s] past time for a nomination to be put on hold until the State Department answers some basic questions about what tortured legal rationale the US is using to aid and abet the Saudi-led slaughter in Yemen that has plunged millions to the brink of starvation,” Kate Gould of the Friends Commit

  • Accompany Spring Lobby Weekend Advocates in Spirit

    Event - Witness Wednesday |  -
    When Friends travel in the ministry, they often journey with an elder who can provide grounding and spiritual accompaniment. Let us gather ahead of Spring Lobby Weekend (Mar. 20-23) and practice spiritual accompaniment for the young adults preparing to lobby their members of Congress and the congressional staff who will receive their ministry. All are welcome
  • World Quaker Day

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    We will be celebrating World Quaker Day on October 3, 2021. Our theme: Resilience and hope: drawing strength from our Quaker faith.
  • Julie Flores-Castillo

    Person - Advocacy Corps 2022-2023 | August 12, 2022
    Julie Flores-Castillo is currently running for county committee in her town and, at age 18, is the youngest candidate.
  • Change Can Happen

    Update | October 6, 2020
    This has been an inspiring time in Washington, D.C.! We have been riveted by our baseball team, the Washington Nationals, who unexpectedly made it into the playoffs and won the World Series! I became a big fan of this team. That they won and that I became so invested is testament that change can happen.
  • Minutes as a Shared Witness

    Background | October 6, 2020
    When Quakers conduct business in a monthly meeting or church, it is done in worship. A minute is a record of a corporate decision reached during a meeting for worship, or for business, or the account of a single transaction in the written record of a meeting for business or committee.