Quaker groups, including the Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends, filed the lawsuit last month challenging the change, saying “the very threat of that enforcement ...

The plaintiffs in the suit represent Quaker congregations across the Northeast and their members, including Yearly Meeting of ...

All members of the Society of Friends ... Philadelphia officially legalized this unity. Final step in the merger of the two societies, possible next year, will be to set up a united Yearly Meeting.