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Quakers are people who belong to the Religious Society of Friends, a historically Protestant Christian set of denominations. Members refer to each other as Friends after John 15:14 in the Bible, and originally, others referred to them as Quakers because the founder of the movement, George Fox, told a judge to quake "before the authority of God ...
The Religious Society of Friends began as a proto-evangelical Christian movement in England in the mid-17th century in Ulverston. [1] [2] Members are informally known as Quakers, as they were said "to tremble in the way of the Lord". While the movement initially grew out of Christian ideals, not all modern Quakers identify as Christian.
This went on until he met an elderly woman, Chu Bá Linh (Chu sư-thái), who took the entire movement into her house. [2]: 138–142 Funds arrived and he planned to move to Thailand. He arrived in Thailand in November 1910, and all his students and followers who could follow him took up farming there. [2]: 142–146
The Underground Railroad, 1893 depiction of the anti-slavery activities of a Northern Quaker named Levi Coffin by Charles T. Webber. The Religious Society of Friends, better known as the Quakers, played a major role in the abolition movement against slavery in both the United Kingdom and in the United States. [1]
In the early seventies, AQAG, having abandoned its goal of transforming the Society of Friends, evolved into the Movement for a New Society, a self-styled "transformational network" dedicated to spreading the practice of non-violent practices throughout the social change networks in North America, and which would play a key role in the anti-nuclear movement of the 1970s.
The Quaker movement began in England in the 17th Century. Small Quaker groups were planted in various places across Europe during this early period (For instance, see the Stephen Crisp article). Quakers in Europe outside Britain and Ireland are not very numerous (2023) although new groups have started in the former Soviet Union and successor ...
Chinese communist guerrilla leader Chu Chia-pi visited northern Vietnam multiple times in 1945 and helped the Viet Minh fight against the French from Yunnan. [173] General Lu Han. Chiang Kai-shek forced the contentious French and Việt Minh to come to terms in the Ho–Sainteny agreement. In February 1946, he also forced the French to ...
The organized work of United Bible Societies in Vietnam began in 1890. In 1966 the Vietnamese Bible Society was established. The Bible societies distributed 53,170 Bible examples and 120,170 New Testament examples in Vietnamese within the country in 2005. Two years earlier, in 2003, 60,000 copies of Bible and 50,000 copies of New Testament (all ...