• Social Witness (QPSW), previously known as the Friends Service Council, and then as Quaker Peace and Service, is one of the central committees of Britain...
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    Quakers (redirect from Society of Friends)
    common good, Quakers represented by the British Friends Service Council and the American Friends Service Committee were awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. During...
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  • The American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) is a Religious Society of Friends (Quaker) founded organization working for peace and social justice in the...
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  • The Friends Relief Service (FRS) was a voluntary humanitarian relief organisation formally established by a committee of Britain Yearly Meeting in November...
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    the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) and the Quaker Peace and Social Witness (QPSW) (previously known as the Friends Service Council) jointly received...
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    Nobel prize was accepted by the American Friends Service Committee, along with the UK's Friends Service Council on behalf of all Quakers. The first paragraph...
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    tickets". www.speakersla.com. Retrieved February 15, 2024. "Illustrious Friends Remember John R. Silber". The Alcalde. November 30, 2012. Archived from...
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  • humanitarian activist who accepted the Nobel Peace Prize on behalf of the Friends Service Council in 1947.   She was born 4 May 1887 in Hurworth, Durham, the ninth...
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    The Friends' Ambulance Unit (FAU) was a volunteer ambulance service, founded by individual members of the British Religious Society of Friends (Quakers)...
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  • Friends of the Earth, Inc. v. Laidlaw Environmental Services, Inc., 528 U.S. 167 (2000), was a United States Supreme Court case that addressed the law...
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    on behalf of American Friends Service Committee. The nomination was made by George W Whiteman on behalf of Friends Service Council. "When Langhelle died...
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    Advertising Council, commonly known as the Ad Council, is an American nonprofit organization that produces, distributes, and promotes public service announcements...
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    Quakers Friends' Schools' Council, group established to support Quakers in education. Abbreviations: CYM: Central Yearly Meeting of Friends EFCI: Evangelical...
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    John Boyd Orr (category Companions of the Distinguished Service Order)
    never read a play by Shakespeare." (Boyd Orr 1966, p. 42) The American Friends Service Committee was one of his nominators for the Nobel Prize (AFSC Nobel...
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    brotherhood." "The American Friends' Service Committee ane the Friends' Service Council advocated peace and pacifism. During WWI the Quakers performed...
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    H.J. (1975). Quaker Service in the Middle East with a history of Brummana High School. 1876-1975. London: Friends Service Council 1975.{{cite book}}:...
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  • together with the British Friends Service Council, accepted the Nobel Peace Prize in 1947 on behalf of the Religious Society of Friends. The prize was shared...
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    Turtle, H.J. (1975) Quaker Service in the Middle East with a history of Broummana High School. 1876-1975. Friends Service Council. pp.151-161. Broummana High...
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    Mass and making friends with Ézy-sur-Eure's priest while living there in the 1850s.: 41  In 1870, Pope Pius IX's First Vatican Council issued the Pastor...
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    Council of Civil Service Unions v Minister for the Civil Service [1984] UKHL 9, or the GCHQ case, is a United Kingdom constitutional law and UK labour...
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  • Garfield and Friends is an American animated children's television series that aired on CBS from September 17, 1988 to December 10, 1994 for a total of...
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    Philip Noel-Baker (category People associated with the Friends' Ambulance Unit)
    manufacturing business and served as a Progressive member of the London County Council from 1895 to 1906 and as a Liberal member of the House of Commons for East...
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  • the organization accepted the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo with the Friends Service Council (now Quaker Peace and Social Witness) on behalf of Quakers worldwide...
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    the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC), which in 1947 received the Nobel Peace Prize along with the British Friends Service Council, now called...
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  • Sewell, William Gawan (February 1938). "An Introduction to the Friends Service Council Number" (PDF). The West China Missionary News. Chengtu: West China...
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  • meaning InContact) is a Russian online social media and social networking service based in Saint Petersburg. VK is available in multiple languages but it...
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  • the television series Thomas & Friends, Season 22 introduces Isla, a plane in service to the RFDS, who is good friends with Shane, the Australian engine...
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    Twitch is an American video live-streaming service that focuses on video game live streaming, including broadcasts of esports competitions, in addition...
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    Secret Intelligence Service (SIS), commonly known as MI6 (Military Intelligence, Section 6), is the foreign intelligence service of the United Kingdom...
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    creation of the American Friends Service Committee in 1917 by Orthodox Friends, led by Rufus Jones and Henry Cadbury. A Friends Service Committee, as an agency...
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