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Quechuan /ˈkɛtʃwən/, also known as runa simi ("people's language"), is a Native South American language family spoken primarily in the Andes, derived from a common ancestral language. It is the most widely spoken language family of the indigenous peoples of the Americas, with a total of probably some 8 million to 10 million speakers
Latin America contains approximately 14% of the world's Quakers. Latin American Friends are concentrated in Bolivia and Central America . Most of these Friends are evangelical and are affiliated with Evangelical Friends Church International .
A Elisabeth Abegg (1882–1974), German educator who rescued Jews during the Holocaust Damon Albarn (b. 1968), English musician, singer-songwriter and record producer Harry Albright (living), Swiss-born Canadian former editor of The Friend, Communications Consultant for FWCC Thomas Aldham (c. 1616–1660), English Quaker instrumental in setting up the first meeting in the Doncaster area Horace ...
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 ...
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Quakers were at the center of the movement to abolish slavery in the early United States; it is no coincidence that Pennsylvania, center of American Quakerism, was the first state to abolish slavery. In the antebellum period, "Quaker meeting houses [in Philadelphia] ...had sheltered abolitionists for generations." [2]: 1
Quakers are the members of the Religious Society of Friends. This category consists of individuals who are or were members of the Religious Society of Friends. All other topics related to Friends are listed in the Quakerism category.
Quaker, Indiana (or Quaker Point), an unincorporated community in Vermillion County, Indiana; Quaker, Missouri, an unincorporated community; Pennsylvania, sometimes called "The Quaker State" Quakers Hill, New South Wales, a suburb in Sydney, Australia