Thanks to all who participated in the Columbia Friends Meeting’s annual Hiroshima Remembrance event on Wednesday, August 6, from 6:30-7:30 PM at Columbia Friends Meeting. This free community gathering commemorated…
Category: Peace and Justice
Actions and Issues related to peace and justice.
35th Annual Hiroshima Remembrance Aug. 6th, 2025 6:30pm
(This is the announcement page for our annual Hiroshima Rememberance event, to see pictures from this year’s event, scroll to the bottom of this post) The Columbia Friends Meeting will…
Peace Efforts in Afghanistan
A Conversation about Peace Efforts in Afghanistan July 17th at 8:00 pm Please join the South Carolina Friends Committee on National Legislation (FCNL) AdvocacyTeam as we talk about peace efforts…
FCNL Statement on Peace Testimony and the Ukraine
Quakers are a people who follow after peace, love and unity. Our peace testimony is ourwitness to the Truth as we experience it.Our testimony manifests as a cumulative set of…
Cranes for Our Future
This weekend will mark 77 years since the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Starting this Friday, we hope you will join the Hiroshima and Nagasaki prefectures, as well as…
Quaker Minute June 5, 2022
As South Carolinians, we feel a special responsibility to speak out against theproduction of plutonium pits and Tritium Producing Burnable Absorber Rods (TPBARs)in our state. Plutonium pits would be produced…
In response to multiple mass shootings in 2022
Our country continues to be devastated by mass shootings. The Gun Violence Archive showsthat the number of all gun violence deaths is rising with each passing year, with 692 individualskilled…
GHANA DELEGATION
Columbia World Affairs Council is hosting the delegation’s visit, including an “AnniversaryBall.” https://www.columbiaworldaffairs.org/sister-cities.html A delegation from one of Columbia’s Sister Cities, Accra, Ghana, will be in town May 12th,2022. The world’s…
Worship Sharing on the Peace Testimony
On the 16th, 85 Friends from states across the country gathered for a two-hour long meeting that saw many meaningful messages rise out of the silence. Both prior to and…
Friends Advocacy: Stop Yemen War
As many of you know, some of us in Friends Meeting along with others in South Carolina are active in the first Friends Committee on National Legislation (FCNL) South Carolina Advocacy…