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Religious Society of Friends - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Other Friends, partly under the influence of movements such as liberal Protestantism, decided that it was possible to be truly led in ways contrary to scripture, and that in such cases scripture should give way. For example while Friends were some of the first to oppose slavery in the United States (Germantown Monthly Meeting minuted their opposition to slavery in 1733), a number of Friends continued to own slaves. Friends were some of the first to value women as important ministers and to campaign for women's rights, they became leaders in the anti-slavery movement, and were among the first to pioneer humane treatment for the mentally ill and for prisoners. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Religious_Society_of_Friends   (4647 words)

American Friends Service Committee - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) is a Religious Society of Friends (Quaker) affiliated organization which works for social justice, peace and reconciliation, abolition of the death penalty, and human rights, and provides humanitarian relief. The group was founded in 1917 as a combined effort by American members of the Religious Society of Friends and assisted civilian victims of war. As the Cold War escalated, the AFSC was involved in relief and service efforts around the world in conflicts including the Korean War, the 1956 Hungarian Revolution, and the 1962 Algerian war of independence. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/American_Friends_Service_Committee   (1017 words)

Camp Internet HomeSchool Weekly Briefing In fact, the tradition of refusing military service - and the recognition of that right - can be traced back to America's founding fathers, some of whom were pacifists fleeing oppression for their beliefs in Europe. The American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) is a Quaker organization that includes people of various faiths who are committed to social justice, peace, and humanitarian service. In 1947, the American Friends Service Committee and the British Friends Service Council received the Nobel Peace Prize, on behalf of the Religious Society of Friends, for humanitarian service, work for reconciliation, and the spirit in which these were carried out. www.rain.org /peace-studies/pacifism-in-american-history.html   (708 words)

RELIGIOUS SOCIETY OF FRIENDS (QUAKERS) In 1688, a group of Friends in Germantown PA took a public stand against slavery; this is believed to be the first stirrings within a religious organization of the abolitionist movement in America. The Friends Service Council in the UK was established in 1927 as a result of the merger of a number of Friends' service organizations. The American Friends Service Committee in the U.S. was organized in 1917 in order to help Quaker and other conscientious objectors perform alternate services during World War I. After the war they were heavily engaged in providing relief services in various European countries. www.religioustolerance.org /quaker.htm   (2799 words)

Bill Samuel Article Friends referred to their movement as "primitive Christianity revived." The Friends peace testimony, as with other aspects of Friends' faith and practice, harkens back to the understanding of early Christians. Friends noted that Jesus said, "He that takes the sword, shall perish with the sword." (Matthew 26:52) The New Testament call is to "overcome evil with good" (Romans 12:21). Friends have held that we should not participate in the wars of humans, or preparations for them. www.criticalconcern.com /bill_samuel_article.htm   (718 words)

Canadian Quaker History   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03) Friends' marriages without the office of a priest, which was against statute but in accordance with common law, had to be arranged. The Service Committee was established in 1931 and represented the wider organization of Friends in Canada across the divisions. Service projects, peace witness and education have been supported as Friends have felt guided and have recognized that Quaker concern is "that leading of the Holy Spirit which may not be denied. home.interhop.net /aschrauwe/CanHis.html   (4674 words)

The Peace Testimony From their earliest days Quakers, or members of the Society of Friends as they are officially called, have been associated with the cause of peace. In 1947 the American Friends Service Committee and the British Friends Service Council were awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for their refugee work in post-World War II Europe. Friends have been leaders in the fields of mediation and conflict resolution. www.rgvquakers.org /peace.html   (582 words)

Full Story The American Friends Service Committee was founded by Friends (Quakers) in 1917 to provide an opportunity for conscientious objectors to aid civilian war victims. Together with its British counterpart, the Friends Service Council, the AFSC was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for 1947. The award was partly in recognition of the work of the two service agencies, but also partly in recognition for the consistent witness of Quakers to peace and nonviolence since their beginnings in the 17th Century. www.ecapc.org /newspage_detail.asp?control=1345   (452 words)

FGC: Friends and Social Change The American Friends Service Committee in the United States, the Friends Service Council in England and Friends Service Committees in other countries represent a twentieth century adaptation of this spirit of innovation and social invention. Another key to this curious conservative radicalism of Friends is the fact that the core of the Quaker experience is in the local meeting, which is, at its best, a community bound together by mutual love and concern rather than by doctrine. Not all Friends meetings by any means come up to this ideal, but the fact that the ideal is recognized brings about a constant pressure to realize it. www.fgcquaker.org /library/welcome/fa-socialchange.html   (780 words)

Friends Journal, February 2001 - Garver Sunday services often run for three hours, with much singing and with separate Bible classes for men and women; in one case there were frequent "Amen!"s. All the Quakers we met in Bolivia are Aymara and are native to the Altiplano. Bolivian Friends have spiritual as well as material needs, and we were specifically asked for spiritual guidance by both the Santidad and the unprogrammed Friends. www.friendsjournal.org /contents/2001/02february/garver.html   (2617 words)

Friends Service Council - History of Organization At the present time FSC cooperates with AFSC and other Quaker bodies in running conferences for diplomats and others, in holding seminars for young leaders, and in maintaining international affairs representatives in key cities in various parts of the world and at the United Nations. The Friends Ambulance Unit, an unofficial body supported by British Quakers, also joined in the relief program in the Middle East, India, China, and northwestern Europe, its work in China and India being continued later by Friends Service Units. They have stressed, too, that their service springs directly from the personal concerns and insights of individuals, tested by the corporate guidance and judgment of the group, and that they are drawn to this work as an expression of their peace witness. nobelprize.org /peace/laureates/1947/friends-council-history.html   (808 words)

Friends Service Council --  Encyclopædia Britannica It shared the 1947 Nobel Prize for Peace with the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC), an organization founded by the Society of Friends (Quakers) in the United States in 1917, initially to provide work overseas for conscientious objectors. His “Plan of Union,” adopted by the Albany Congress in 1754, would have established a general council, with representatives from the several colonies, to organize the common defense against the encroaching French and to... The word charity comes from the Latin caritas, meaning “love.” Among the many services performed by religious groups are collecting food and clothing; aiding refugees; operating hospitals, orphanages, and homes for senior citizens; furnishing medical services and... www.britannica.com /eb/article-9096483?tocId=9096483   (864 words)

Religion News Service: Press Releases Philadelphia, PA (January 31) - The American Friends Service Committee (AFSC), a Quaker humanitarian service organization, has nominated an organization in Japan that represents Hiroshima and Nagasaki survivors for the 2005 Nobel Peace Prize. In 1947, AFSC and the British Friends Service Council accepted the Nobel Peace Prize on behalf of the Religious Society of Friends for humanitarian service, work for reconciliation, and the spirit in which these were carried out. The American Friends Service Committee is a Quaker organization that includes people of various faiths who are committed to social justice, peace and humanitarian service. www.religionnews.com /press02/PR020105.html   (479 words)

QuakerOrgan.html The American Friends Service Committee was founded in 1917 to provide young Quakers and other conscientious objectors an opportunity to serve those in need instead of fighting during World War I. Four decades later, the AFSC and the British Friends Service Council accepted the Nobel Peace Prize on behalf of all Quakers. The Friends Intelligencer Corporation was founded in 1933 "to publish a magazine, pamphlets and other writings for the purpose of promoting religious concerns of the Religious Society of Friends and the education and information of its members and others." The Friend was published from 1827 to 1955. Today FRIENDS JOURNAL is located in an office condominium adjacent to the offices of Friends General Conference, with a staff of five full-time and seven part-time employees, and the assistance of 17 regular volunteers. www.thirdhaven.org /QuakerOrgan.html   (5562 words)

| W o r l d B o o k |   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03) Friends Service Council (FSC) was the standing committee based in the United Kingdom (UK) and in Ireland that, until 1978, supervised the.... Friends University is a private institution of higher learning in Wichita, Kansas. American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) is a Quaker organization committed to nonviolence and social equality. www.worldbook.com /wc/wbSearch?st1=Friends   (184 words)

Friends Testimonies   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03) In 1947 the Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to the Friends Service Council (of the UK and Ireland) and the American Friends Service Committee to recognise their relief work with refugees after World War II. With the intention of showing that all are equal many Friends address people simply using first and last names, omitting Mr, Mrs, Miss, The Hon, Sir, etc. Similarly Quaker men used to refuse to take off their hats in front of anyone except God. Friends were in the forefront of the anti-slavery movement with an American Friend, John Woolman, being particularly persuasive. www.iol.ie /~rjtechne/quakers/quaker350/testimon.htm   (515 words)

Quaker information and religious beliefs Friends Committee on National Legislation announces their return to "A Place Just Right"-- their building on Capitol Hill, newly renovated as an environmentally "green" facility. Friends Center Corporation in Philadelphia (housing the Quaker Information Center and six of our members and associates) develops plans for a green renovation as "a living witness to Friends testimonies." Quakers are members of the Religious Society of Friends, a faith that emerged as a new Christian denomination in England during a period of religious turmoil in the mid-1600's, and is practiced today, in a variety of forms, around the world. www.quakerinfo.org   (368 words)

AMERICAN FRIENDS SERVICE COMMITTEE The Tripartite Work and Study Project held in the summer of 1963 was the second stage of a three year project organized jointly by the Friends Service Council of Great Britain, the Committee of Youth Organizations of the Soviet Union, and the American Friends Service Committee. Through working together on a project of service to the community, and through free and frank exchange of views, participants sought to increase their knowledge of each other's society and ways of life and thought, and to grow in mutual understanding. The Tripartite Work and Study Projects are a part of a larger program of international voluntary work camps carried on in various parts of the world by the Youth Services Division of the American Friends Service Committee. ccat.sas.upenn.edu /~haroldfs/friends/AFSCreport.htm   (1124 words)

About AFSC : AFSC The American Friends Service Committee carries out service, development, social justice, and peace programs throughout the world. The organization's mission and achievements won worldwide recognition in 1947 when it accepted the Nobel Peace Prize with the British Friends Service Council on behalf of all Quakers. The AFSC is directed by a Quaker board and staffed by Quakers and other people of faith who share the Friends' desire for peace and social justice. www.afsc.org /about   (130 words)

AFSC Report   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03) Inevitably, creative tensions develop between the “front line” activists of AFSC staff and program volunteers (many but not all of whom are Friends), and the wider Quaker body of 23 yearly meetings which constitutes the AFSC’s roots and continuing nurture in faith and practice. The occasion marked the 50th anniversary celebration of the 1947 awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize to the Religious Society of Friends for “humanitarian service, work for reconciliation, and the spirit in which these were carried out”—largely through the AFSC and the British Friends Service Council in Europe during and after the two World Wars. Continuing dialogue between AFSC staff and representatives of the Society of Friends was evident in the agenda of the corporation’s business meeting, which contained items dealing with “how AFSC and Quaker meetings can work together,” long-range financial planning, and presentations by the board’s human relations committee. www.quakernet.org /1998Minutes/afsc_report.htm   (472 words)

[No title] Henceforth, Friends will have to make their case for the value of Quaker decision-making processes and the spiritual grounding of political action to a staff that no longer understands that tradition or feels obligated to respect it. He is co-pastor of Redwood Friends Church in Portland, Oregon.] 154 The AFSC is not directly accountable to the yearly meetings or to any group of them, such as the Friends General Conference, the Friends United Meeting, or the Evangelical Friends Alliance. In short, many Friends do not feel that a channel of communication exists between them and the AFSC which allows their concerns to be really heard. elvis.rowan.edu /~kilroy/JEK/FOX/jones.txt   (9397 words)

Friends Journal: Feature September 2003 Although he was never imprisoned, the British harassed him, arresting him for minor violations (and then immediately releasing him when his Arab lawyer friend intervened) and, at one point, confiscating his motorcycle for parking in a restricted zone. I asked a school official whether this kind of angry rhetoric was usual, and whether the Friends School seeks to influence the students or the parents with teachings about Quaker testimonies. Husan and his friends asked if the corpses could be placed in the hospital morgue or buried in a cemetery just a few yards away. www.friendsjournal.org /contents/2003/09september/feature.htm   (6040 words)

The Friends' Meeting House Since coming to Canada in 1952, she has been active in the life of the Society of Friends in Canada and is a member of the Toronto Friends Meeting. She had been chairman of the Canadian Friends Service Committee and a representative of Canadian Yearly Meeting on the (international) Friends World Committee for Consultation. At the service, Wilda Clark, one of the directors of the "Friends' Meeting House" Board, presented a plaque to Ronald and Russell Gould, recognizing their work in building a new foundation for the church. www.uxbridge.com /churches/mhouse02.html   (443 words)

Olney Friends School - A College Preparatory Quaker Boarding School Earlier this month, four students and one faculty member from Olney Friends School, Barnesville, Ohio, attended the annual Quaker Youth Leadership Conference in Philadelphia, PA. The American Friends Service Committee sponsored the conference, which was held February 3-5 at William Penn Charter School and Germantown Friends School. The Quaker Youth Leadership Conference, which is organized entirely by students, was started 8 years ago to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Nobel Peace Prize won by the American Friends Service Committee and it’s British counterpart, Friends Service Council. Through education, students at Olney Friends School are provided the tools they need to understand core social issues in their home countries and across the globe. www.olneyfriends.org /news/quaker_youth_leadership_2005.htm   (247 words)

Friends Council The Friends Council is a group of up to thirteen WUMB listeners, with the charge of assisting and advising the radio station's general manager with fundraising, outreach and community service. The next meeting of the WUMB Friends Council will take place on Thursday, January 12, 2006 at 6:30 pm on the Lower Level of the UMass Boston Healey Library Building. Judy Wong (Friends Council Chair) is the labor counsel for UMass Memorial Health Care in Worcester, where I deal with union and other employment issues on behalf of management. www.wumb.org /about/friendscouncil.php   (1310 words)

SEYM (Society of Friends/Quakers) Friends Peace Teams will send an exploratory team to Colombia in the last week of May, and we need your support and prayers as we go. Friend Peace Teams hopes to develop further work in Colombia as a result of this exploratory team. Friends who wish to endorse the statement should go to where they will find a screen on which they can fill out information and submit their endorsement. www.seym.org /peace.html   (1967 words)

Friends Service Council Nepal..... Friends Service Council Nepal (FSCN) is a Nepali non-profitable, non-political, non-governmental organization working in socio-economic development at the Grass Root Level in Nepal. FSCN aims at fighting against poverty and injustice and to improve the socio-economic condition of the poor and disadvantaged people. Friends Service Council is affiliated with Social Welfare Council (SWC) and NGO Federation of Nepal (NFN). www.fscnepal.org   (77 words)

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