Providence Friends Meeting

08/31/2026

Join Friends from Chester Quarterly Meeting for an interfaith vigil on Wednesday, September 2nd, at 12 pm noon alongside The New Sanctuary Movement and interfaith partners. We will gather outside of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Philadelphia Office at 8th & Cherry Streets to hold a prayer vigil to show our faithful commitment to protecting the safety and well-being of our immigrant neighbors.

The vigil will be led in a manner of Friends, including silent worship, a message from Jim Fussell (BYM), and opportunities to sing.

This is part of a 40-week series of prayer vigils initiated by the New Sanctuary Movement (NSM) of Philadelphia and sponsored by various Philadelphia faith communities. NSM builds community across faith, ethnicity, and class in their work to end injustices against immigrants regardless of immigration status and to express radical welcome for all.

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08/30/2026

Vigil Supporting Immigrant Justice
Wednesday, September 2,2026
Philadelphia ICE Office - 8th and Cherry Streets
12:00pm - 1:00pm
OPPORTUNITY FOR QUAKER ACTION
BACKGROUND
The New Sanctuary movement has been holding interfaith vigils at the Philadelphia region ICE office at 8th and Cherry Street. These occur every Wednesday from noon to 1 PM. Different religious groups provide the program in rotation.
VIGIL
This coming Wednesday, September 2nd, the program will be Quaker oriented and will involve mostly Friends from Chester Quarter and organized by Jim Nicholson from Media Monthly Meeting. This is intended to be an energetic spirit-led contemplation of love, justice and truth. You can bring signs but it's not necessary to have a sign. Some will be provided as well as flyers to hand out

08/28/2026

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YEAR-ROUND GLOBAL MOVEMENT
Doctors Against Genocide (DAG), Priests Against Genocide USA (PAG), Justice for All and partner organizations are launching The Gaza Children's Shroud: A Year-Round Global Movement of witness and action.

The Children's Shroud, bearing the handwritten names of more than 20,000 children killed in Gaza, will begin its journey in Philadelphia on September 1 with a major public gathering at City Hall calling for freedom, justice, and the protection of life in Palestine. From there, the Shroud will travel to New York City for its international launch at the United Nations Church Center on September 16, during the United Nations General Assembly. In October, the Shroud will continue to Washington, D.C., for a week of witness, including a Vigil and public reading of every child's name, and events with the public and members of Congress, before traveling to cities and countries around the world.

Each month, the Shroud will travel to a new city, where it will become the focal point of a week-long public vigil dedicated to reading the names of the children, honoring their lives, and expanding the global call to end the genocide in Gaza.

At the heart of this movement is a handwritten memorial shroud bearing the names of all 20,000 children. The writing of all the names is led by Priests Against Genocide (USA) in partnership with Christian, Muslim, Jewish, and other faith communities and organizations across the United States and around the world.

08/23/2026

American Friends Service Committee invites us to join with others to build a community committed to change and support actions for migration justice

Friends are guided by the knowledge that all persons share an inherent, immutable, and inalienable human dignity. But those facing or threatened by migration injustice today (including migrants, immigrants, and refugees) face immediate and dire danger. The Quaker Action for Migration Justice Network (QAMJN; pronounced “Q-imagine”) connects Friends who are committed to meaningful change in the face of these threats.

QAMJN is a tool to gather Friends, meetings, and other stakeholders to build community, share ideas, and organize and support actions for migration justice. It exists to help facilitate local, grassroots action, informed and supported by a nationwide network of Friends, to make the world we inhabit into the one we imagine.

Friends are guided by the knowledge that all persons share an inherent, immutable, and inalienable human dignity.  But those facing or threatened by migration injustice today (including migrants, immigrants, and refugees) face immediate and dire danger. The Quaker Action for Migration Justice Netwo...

08/19/2026

Happy Transgender Pride Flag Day! The Transgender Pride flag was designed by Monica Helms in 1999. She donated the flag to the Smithsonian National Museum of American History on August 19, 2014.

National Museum of American History

https://americanhistory.si.edu/press/releases/national-museum-american-history-collects-history-related-lesbian-gay-bisexual-and

08/19/2026

When someone asks us, “What do Quakers believe?” we can find ourselves fumbling for an answer. What can we say that is true to the depth of our tradition yet simple and short enough to serve in the situation? How can we give an answer that honors both the full breadth of our tradition and the significant diversity of Quaker faith and experience?

Six essentials of Quaker faith.

08/17/2026

Congratulations to Andrea Packard!! Her mixed media work Music and Melville (Family Group) is on view until early September at
Woodmere Art Museum during their 83rd Annual Exhibition, juried by Ron Tarver on the concept of family.

08/12/2026

NEW YORK (August 11, 2026) – Four human rights groups filed a lawsuit in the Southern District of New York on August 11, 2026, alleging that the Trump administration is illegally sanctioning individuals and organizations affiliated with or assisting the work of the International Criminal Court (ICC) and is criminalizing those who associate with or otherwise support them. The suit challenges President Donald Trump’s February 6, 2025, executive order authorizing sanctions on ICC officials, judges, and others working with the court to seek justice for genocide, war crimes, and crimes against humanity.
The plaintiffs (the American Friends Service Committee, the Center for Constitutional Rights, Human Rights Watch, and the Open Society Institute, a part of the Open Society Foundations) state that the sanctions are a blatantly illegal attack on international justice and should be struck down. The groups assert the sanctions force them to curtail a wide range of human rights and legal work in violation of their First and Fifth Amendment rights under the US Constitution and under the Religious Freedom Restoration Act. The lawsuit also argues that the sanctions exceed the president’s powers and are based on a pseudo “national emergency” that has no basis in fact.
“The fact that so many leading human rights and humanitarian organizations have come together to challenge Trump’s unlawful executive order demonstrates the widespread harm it is causing across civil society groups dedicated to bringing those responsible for grave crimes to justice,” said lead counsel Andrew Loewenstein of Foley Hoag LLP. “The plaintiffs are seeking an end to this sanctions regime, which transgresses the president’s authority and violates international and US law, including the rights to freedom of expression and religion"
“The fact that so many leading human rights and humanitarian organizations have come together to challenge Trump’s unlawful executive order demonstrates the widespread harm it is causing across civil society groups dedicated to bringing those responsible for grave crimes to justice,” said lead counsel Andrew Loewenstein of Foley Hoag LLP. “The plaintiffs are seeking an end to this sanctions regime, which transgresses the president’s authority and violates international and US law, including the rights to freedom of expression and religion...”

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NEW YORK (August 11, 2026) – Four human rights groups filed a lawsuit in the Southern District of New York on August 11, 2026, alleging that the Trump administration is illegally sanctioning individuals and organizations affiliated with or assisting the work of the International Criminal Court (...

08/10/2026

Members from Providence Friends Meeting, Media Friends Meeting and the Unitarian Universalist Church of Delaware County participated is the Delco Indivisible Vigil. Thank you to CTC YOU for this video

A vigil was held by Delco Indivisible on July 25 in Media, PA to remember those killed by ICE, most recently Lorenzo Salgado Araujo and Johan Sebastian Guerrero.

Speaker list:
02:29 - Cathy Spahr
02:52 - Ann Marie Esposito
04:11 - Reverend Laura Solomon
11:13 - Beth Gargan

© 2026 CTC YOU. All rights reserved. This video is protected by copyright law and may not be used or reproduced without the express written permission of the copyright owner.

A vigil was held by Delco Indivisible on July 25 in Media, PA to re...

08/08/2026

"...We face ongoing attempts of empire to undermine and reframe what it means to be human. What practices might sustain our spirits and guide our work?.."

Pendle Hill
God Bless the Grass: The Lamb’s War as Endless Revolution
August 10 @ 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm EDT
Online
Registration Link: https://host.nxt.blackbaud.com/registration-form/?formId=9b8c543c-9cc1-454e-930f-fa9ac39891ef&envId=p-vB3vIq40ekeTe60ejI_4PQ&zone=usa

Description
An online lecture with C. Wess Daniels.
What relevance does the Lamb’s War have on Quakers living and resisting empire today? By reframing the Lamb’s War as an Endless Revolution, we will consider the ways in which our liturgies, that is the work we do together as Friends, shapes our communities. We face ongoing attempts of empire to undermine and reframe what it means to be human. What practices might sustain our spirits and guide our work? In this talk, we will look both liturgies of empire and liturgies of resistance as we consider how to sustain our communities of love and justice in the ongoing work to bring about the beloved community.
This lecture will celebrate the August publication of Pendle Hill Pamphlet #500, C. Wess Daniels’ God Bless the Grass: Liturgies of Empire, Liturgies of Resistance.