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 group of Quakers is challenging the Trump administration’s immigration policy on the grounds of religious liberty. Five Quaker congregations, also known as the Religious Society of Friends ...
“I think of churches as belonging to an eternal country.” In a memo about a similar lawsuit filed by a group of Quaker churches, the Department of Justice said that immigration enforcement affecting ...
In his youth, he attended Lampeter Quaker Meeting in Bird-in-Hand. Near the end of that book, Gibbons lists among the church’s hopes for the future “to effect a permanent reconciliation ...
The judge declined to pause the policy more broadly. By Eileen Sullivan Reporting from Washington A group of mostly Quaker religious organizations has succeeded in temporarily preventing federal ...
Six Quaker congregations ... standing policy that restricted immigration authorities from making arrests at churches and other “sensitive locations.” The houses of worship argue that the ...
I belong to a tiny Quaker Meeting in the rolling hills of South Central Pennsylvania just north of Gettysburg. Our meeting house is surrounded by acres upon acres of apple orchards, and our community ...
U.S. District Judge Theodore Chang found that the Trump administration policy could violate their religious freedom and should be blocked while a lawsuit challenging it plays out.