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Friends Center, Philadelphia @friendsctr.bsky.social · 22h

Coming up Sunday 10/12/25, 3-5 pm: How faith communities can support immigrants.

Part of Friends Center's 50th anniversary series of trainings on nonviolent action.

Held here in Center City Philadelphia. Refreshments and child care provided.

For Quakers and non-Quakers alike!

Sign up here:

How Faith Communities Can Support Immigrants - FC@50

Philadelphia Yearly Meeting & New Sanctuary Movement will help faith communities respond to expressed needs of immigrant communities.

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Friends Center, Philadelphia @friendsctr.bsky.social · 4d

Registration is open for the next workshop in Friends Center's series to celebrate our 50th anniversary as the Quaker hub for peace & justice in Philly.

Here with @quakerspym.bsky.social next Sun. 10/12/25, 3-5 pm:

How Faith Communities Can Support Immigrants

How Faith Communities Can Support Immigrants - FC@50

Philadelphia Yearly Meeting & New Sanctuary Movement will help faith communities respond to expressed needs of immigrant communities.

www.eventbrite.com

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Friends Center, Philadelphia @friendsctr.bsky.social · 8d

World Quaker Day is this Sunday!

(Or, as earlier generations of Friends called it, and some still do today, this First Day.)

Friends World Committee @globalquakers.bsky.social · 15d

This year's World Quaker Day (5 October) is themed 'Love Your Neighbour'.

Our QuakerSpeak video on the theme, published in preparation, has been viewed nearly ten thousand times!

You can watch it too, here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ylgi...

The Quaker Approach to the Bible

YouTube video by QuakerSpeak

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FCNL @fcnl.bsky.social · 9d

FCNL’s Stephen Donahoe reflects on finding hope, even in the worst places:

“I am taking this reminder to seek out and cultivate resilience. I am taking this reminder to continue planting seeds, even in the rockiest soil.”

Finding resilience, even in the worst places | Friends Committee On National Legislation

Recently I was traveling in Berlin for a long weekend with friends; I woke up in the morning of my last day convinced that I needed to visit Sachsenhausen, a nearby concentration camp. Throughout an o...

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Friends Center, Philadelphia @friendsctr.bsky.social · 10d

You can register here for our October 12th workshop on how faith communities can support immigrants. Open to Quakers non-Quakers alike!

How Faith Communities Can Support Immigrants - FC@50

Philadelphia Yearly Meeting & New Sanctuary Movement will help faith communities respond to expressed needs of immigrant communities.

www.eventbrite.com

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Friends Center, Philadelphia @friendsctr.bsky.social · 10d

New banners just dropped!

2025 is Friends Center's 50th anniversary as the Quaker hub for peace & justice in Philadelphia.

We're celebrating with a series of workshops on nonviolent action!

A white and green banner hangs on a black fence above a red brick wall. In the background are trees and the Race Street Quaker Meetinghouse. The banner says, Friends Center 50th. 50th anniversary 1975-2025. The Quaker hub for peace and justice in Philadelphia. Learn peacemaking with us." There is a web address and a QR code that go to the web page given in the post.

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Friends Center, Philadelphia @friendsctr.bsky.social · 10d

You can register here for our October 12th workshop on how faith communities can support immigrants. Open to Quakers non-Quakers alike!

How Faith Communities Can Support Immigrants - FC@50

Philadelphia Yearly Meeting & New Sanctuary Movement will help faith communities respond to expressed needs of immigrant communities.

www.eventbrite.com

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Friends Center, Philadelphia @friendsctr.bsky.social · 10d

Our next workshop for our 50th anniversary is on October 12, with @quakerspym.bsky.social and New Sanctuary Movement of Philadelphia: How faith communities can support immigrants.

Flyer to share: friendscentercorp.org/wp-content/u...

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Friends Center, Philadelphia @friendsctr.bsky.social · 10d

New banners just dropped!

2025 is Friends Center's 50th anniversary as the Quaker hub for peace & justice in Philadelphia.

We're celebrating with a series of workshops on nonviolent action!

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Friends Center, Philadelphia @friendsctr.bsky.social · 14d

At Stenton Museum in Philly, 9/30/25:
"Wrestling with Justice" will challenge widespread assumptions about northern slavery & create an interpretive framework, programming, & exhibits to explore untold stories of enslaved & free people at Stenton, & evolving 18th-C. Quaker attitudes re enslavement.

Wrestling With Justice - Taking It To The Streets

WRESTLING WITH JUSTICE will challenge widespread assumptions about northern slavery and create an interpretive framework, programming, and exhibits to explore untold stories of enslaved and free peopl...

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Friends Center, Philadelphia @friendsctr.bsky.social · 14d

Learn about our full series of trainings on nonviolent action to celebrate 50th anniversary as the Quaker hub for peace and justice in Philadelphia:

Trainings to Celebrate Our 50th Anniversary! – Friends Center

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Friends Center, Philadelphia @friendsctr.bsky.social · 14d

We continue our 50th anniversary training series Sun. 10/12/25, 3-5 pm, with @quakerspym.bsky.social & New Sanctuary Movement of Philly.

How faith communities can support immigrant justice, with updates on what’s happening on the ground & how to stand in solidarity.

Open to all. Register here:

How Faith Communities Can Support Immigrants - FC@50

Philadelphia Yearly Meeting & New Sanctuary Movement will help faith communities respond to expressed needs of immigrant communities.

www.eventbrite.com

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Friends World Committee @globalquakers.bsky.social · 15d

This year's World Quaker Day (5 October) is themed 'Love Your Neighbour'.

Our QuakerSpeak video on the theme, published in preparation, has been viewed nearly ten thousand times!

You can watch it too, here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ylgi...

The Quaker Approach to the Bible

YouTube video by QuakerSpeak

www.youtube.com

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Friends Center, Philadelphia @friendsctr.bsky.social · 17d

Registration to the next training is now open. Refreshments & child care will be provided.

This training is for Quakers and non-Quakers!

www.eventbrite.com/e/how-faith-...

How Faith Communities Can Support Immigrants - FC@50

Philadelphia Yearly Meeting & New Sanctuary Movement will help faith communities respond to expressed needs of immigrant communities.

www.eventbrite.com

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Friends Center, Philadelphia @friendsctr.bsky.social · 17d

Thanks to Lewis Webb of @afsc-org.bsky.social & Tonya McClary for leading our 1st training in Friends Center's series celebrating our 50th year as the Quaker hub for peace & justice in Philly.

Next: @quakerspym.bsky.social on how faith communities can support immigrants, here on 10/12/25, 3-5 pm.

Trainings to Celebrate Our 50th Anniversary! – Friends Center

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Friends Journal @friendsjournal.org · 18d

"We believe that career development, spiritual and faith practice, and mental health are key to long-term peace and community empowerment," says Joyeuse Senga, co-founder and executive director of Friends Career Center, which serves the needs of young people in Rwanda and Canada.

Empowering East African Youth to Build a Better Future

An interview with Joyeuse Senga of Friends Career Center.

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Friends Center, Philadelphia @friendsctr.bsky.social · 24d

Friends Center's 50th anniversary celebration as the Quaker hub for peace and justice in Philadelphia kicks off with @afsc-org.bsky.social's workshop here on Community Safety Beyond Policing.

Register here: www.eventbrite.com/e/creating-c...

Creating Community Safety Beyond Policing - FC@50

The US spends over $200 bn/yr on prisons & policing. Come learn how to develop community safety with transformative alternatives!

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Friends Center, Philadelphia @friendsctr.bsky.social · 24d

Friends Center's 50th anniversary celebration as the Quaker hub for peace and justice in Philadelphia kicks off with @afsc-org.bsky.social's workshop here on Community Safety Beyond Policing.

Register here: www.eventbrite.com/e/creating-c...

Creating Community Safety Beyond Policing - FC@50

The US spends over $200 bn/yr on prisons & policing. Come learn how to develop community safety with transformative alternatives!

www.eventbrite.com

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Friends Center, Philadelphia @friendsctr.bsky.social · 27d

Friends Center celebrates its 50th anniversary in 2025 with a series of trainings on nonviolent action. First up: Community Safety Beyond Policing, with @afsc-org.bsky.social.

Please share the flyer: friendscentercorp.org/wp-content/u...

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Quakers in Britain @quaker.org.uk · 28d

How can we share knowledge and insight across generations within our communities?

Read and watch searching conversations on faith and action between young Quakers and older members of the Welsh Quaker community.

Read the full blog, and access our new film, here:

You can always ask me: intergenerational conversations about faith

Extract of an intergenerational conversation about Quaker faith

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Physicians for Social Responsibility Pennsylvania @psrpennsylvania.bsky.social · Sep 10

Countdown is on! Our PFAS webinar is just days away.
Learn how “forever chemicals” impact obesity, infertility, cancer, and more — and what we can do to protect public health.
Featuring Megan Wolff, PhD, MPH.
Reserve your spot today: buff.ly/wanQdyW

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Friends Center, Philadelphia @friendsctr.bsky.social · Jul 11

This thread features the Quaker & non-Quaker nonprofits that call Friends Center home.

If your organization needs office space in Center City Philadelphia, check us out. We have some space available for small groups whose missions align with Quaker values.

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Friends Center, Philadelphia @friendsctr.bsky.social · Sep 9

Learn more about @afsc-org.bsky.social's Stronger with Immigrants campaign here. 2/2

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Stronger With Immigrants

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Friends Center, Philadelphia @friendsctr.bsky.social · Sep 9

We have new @afsc-org.bsky.social banners to share with you all:

"Quaker Communities
are stronger with immigrants"

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Thee Quaker @theequaker.bsky.social · Sep 8

The Flushing Remonstrance was a 1657 petition by Dutch colonists in protest of religious intolerance in the New Netherland colony that targeted religious minorities and including Quakers. None of the signers were Friends but they resisted their government in pursuit of religious tolerance. (1/2)

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