Friends Service Council

Friends Service Council

(FSC), 

      Quaker organization founded in Great Britain in 1927 and committed to foreign work. It shared the 1947 Nobel Prize for Peace with the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC), an organization founded by the Society of Friends (Quakers) in the United States in 1917, initially to provide work overseas for conscientious objectors. Both committees are devoted to peace and humanitarian activities.

      The pacificism of the two organizations is directly connected with their religion. Friends believe that every person has a “Christ Within” or an “Inward Light” that is expressed outwardly by a life of love and kindness. War is incompatible with this Inward Light, and, as a result, many Friends are conscientious objectors (conscientious objector) during war; this prompted the founding of the AFSC at the time of World War I. The organization found alternative work for objectors in such places as hospitals and forestry camps. Services of the AFSC and the FSC then expanded to include relief work, food and clothing distribution, and medical care in war-torn or underprivileged areas. Assistance was often offered to both sides, and every effort was made to allow aid recipients to help themselves and preserve their self-respect.

      The emblem of the Friends organizations is a red and black eight-pointed star.

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