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Quakers offer
news update
To the Editor:
Important events in Congress and the Executive Offices are not always well reported, especially when decisions are in the making.
Fifty years ago, the Religious Society of Friends, popularly known as Quakers, set up a lobby in Washington D.C. to keep an eye on matters of particular importance to them and to work to affect legislation and occasionally, administrative action.
Some of the issues traditionally of concern to Quakers are peace, human and civil rights and civil liberties. freedom of religions and the separation of church and state, the death penalty, eV-iminal justice and prison conditions and poverty.
Treaty rights and other matters pertaining to the welfare of Native Americans also are important to some Quakers.
The denomination is small and funds to support the Friends Committee on National Legislation (FCNL) are not tax deductible.'The governing body is composed of Quakers from all parts of the U.S.
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