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  • Centering for Silent Reflection: What to Expect at Witness Wednesday

    Resource | September 22, 2021
    Every Wednesday at 5:15 p.m. ET, FCNL hosts a gathering on zoom for F/friends around the country. This is an opportunity to engage in silent worship and reflection with one another. It is a time to come together in community.
  • National Faith Leaders Call on President Biden to Return to Iran Nuclear Deal

    Press Release | June 23, 2022
    Twenty-five national faith organizations released a statement today calling on President Joe Biden to pursue an expeditious return to Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), also known as the Iran nuclear deal.
  • Quaker Lobby Denounces Ballooning Pentagon Budget

    Press Release | December 9, 2022
    Congress is set to pass the largest Pentagon budget in history.
  • Pentagon Sees Highest-Ever Payout in Disastrous FY2024 Defense Bill

    Press Release | July 14, 2023
    The Friends Committee on National Legislation (FCNL) deplores today’s passage of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2024 (H.R 2670) by the House of Representatives.
  • Bipartisan Bill to Address Legacy of Indian Boarding Reintroduced in Senate

    Update | January 8, 2024
    Quakers and friends in the FCNL community have been closely following the Truth and Healing Commission on Indian Boarding School Policies in the United States Act. With a deep concern for the need to advance justice, accountability, and healing for the atrocities of the Indian boarding school era, our network has faithfully uplifted this legislation through intergenerational advocacy.
  • Healing the Harms of Nuclear Testing

    Event - Quaker Changemaker Series |  -
    Join lead nuclear disarmament lobbyist Allen Hester and Tina Cordova, co-founder of the Tularosa Basin Downwinders Consortium, for a conversation about the domestic impact of nuclear testing and how living out Quaker testimonies for peace and integrity call us to advocate with communities who still bear the scars of our country’s nuclear history. As we work collectively for a world free of nuclear weapons, we must also reckon with what those weapons have already done.
  • Viewpoint: Zoomers Have Not Given up on Democracy

    Update | December 16, 2022
    I’m proud that my generation, Gen Z or Zoomers, continues to vote, despite the rhetoric that our votes don’t matter or that elections are fraudulent. Voter suppression and gerrymandering occurred in many states, but we voted anyway.
  • A Call to Renew Our Democracy and Love Our Neighbors, No Exceptions

    Press Release | July 15, 2024
    We are dismayed and heartbroken by the assassination attempt against former President Donald Trump during a campaign rally in Pennsylvania on July 13. We hold him, those killed and wounded, and all those affected by these traumatic events in the Light.
  • Quaker Lobby Urges Increased Foreign Aid Funding, Not More Cuts

    Press Release | November 25, 2024
    FCNL and 63 other organizations wrote the Senate Appropriations Committee leadership urging them to reject the recently House-passed cuts to peacebuilding, human rights, humanitarian aid, migration, climate adaptation, and poverty-focused development assistance in the proposed FY25 appropriations.
  • FCNL Helps Lead Organizations in Calling for More Peacebuilding Support

    Letter | September 11, 2020
    FCNL, Alliance for Peacebuilding, and Search for Common Ground drafted a letter urging Congress to provide robust support for foreign assistance focused on preventing and mitigating conflict in a new COVID-19 supplemental funding package. The letter, which was signed by 69 other organizations, emphasizes that COVID-19 is not only a public health emergency, but also an economic crisis that could trigger conflict globally.