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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.

  • FCNL: Trump’s Jerusalem Decision Foments Violence, Endangers Lives

    Press Release | December 9, 2020
    FCNL condemns the Trump administration’s decision to recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s capital and to move the U.S. embassy to Jerusalem, a provocative move that foments violence in the Middle East and endangers lives in the Middle East and potentially beyond. The Friends Committee on National Legislation urges Congress to denounce this provocation and to refuse to fund Trump’s planned fortress-like embassy in Jerusalem.

  • 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.

  • Joint statement: Grassroots groups respond to Trump’s decision to decertify the Iran nuclear deal

    FCNL in the News | October 13, 2017

    Joint statement by Beyond the Bomb, CREDO, Friends Committee on National Legislation, Indivisible, J Street, MoveOn.org Civic Action, NIAC Action, Peace Action, VoteVets, Win Without War, and Women’s Action for New Directions on Donald Trump’s decision to decertify the Iran nuclear agreement.

  • Senators Try To Rein In Saudi Arabia’s Brutal U.S.-Backed Campaign In Yemen

    Update | March 7, 2018

    Capitol Hill conversations about Yemen that used to focus primarily on the impact of U.S.-supported airstrikes now broadly cover the general devastation of the nation, which is also facing an unprecedented outbreak of cholera, according to Kate Gould of the anti-war advocacy group Friends Committ

  • 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.

  • Q&A: Advocating Native Issues

    Background | November 1, 2021
    How can Friends be allies with the Native community?

    Native organizations most often ask for lobbying support. FCNL’s monthly Native American Legislative Update makes that easy. Some Quakers want to become effective community educators.

  • Speaking Truth to Power Out of Quaker Grounding

    Update | May 18, 2022
    On May 4, FCNL welcomed Dr. Sa’ed Atshan, associate professor of Anthropology at Emory University, to share his experiences with Quaker education growing up, his life’s journey with Quakerism, his thoughts on Quaker institutions, and his overall reflections on faith.