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Driving the news: Five Quaker congregations, also known as the Religious Society of Friends, filed the lawsuit against the Department of Homeland Security and new DHS Secretary Kristi Noem in ...
The Religious Society of Friends argued their practice of communal worship is uniquely harmed by the policy change, alleging that the possibility of an immigration arrest or search has a "chilling ...
The Archives of American Art makes its archival collections available for non-commercial, educational and personal use unless restricted by copyright and/or donor restrictions, including but not ...
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 ...
Nearly 400 years after members of the Religious Society of Friends, also known as Quakers, arrived in America in pursuit of religious freedom, a new immigration policy threatens the ability of the ...
A coalition of Quaker groups filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration on Monday seeking to block immigration authorities from raiding houses of worship in search of criminal migrants.
But groups of the Religious Society of Friends better known as Quakers, the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship representing 750,000 people and the Sikh Temple Sacramento representing 30,000 people ...
The worship style of conservative sects of the Religious Society of Friends, as the Quakers are formally known, is “silent worship”, where congregants sit together in silence until someone ...
The Religious Society of Friends — best known as the Quakers — originated in 17th century England. The Christian group was founded by George Fox, an Englishman who objected to Anglican ...
Tall 75-year-old Dr. Rufus Matthew Jones, retired Haverford College philosophy professor, is a great & good member of a great U. S. sect, the Society of Friends. Two decades ago Quaker Jones ...
Religion: Friends; Religion: Friends. 2 minute read. TIME. December 3, 1923 12:00 AM GMT-5. ... Now the Society of Friends have assumed the heaviest responsibility in their history.