Religious Peace Fellowships
Since 1935, FOR has helped form, launch, and strengthen peace fellowships of many faith traditions to form a network of faith-based nonviolent action. Membership of these peace fellowships has changed and grown over the past decades; what follows are fellowships that are currently affiliated with FOR:
- Adventist Peace Fellowship
- Baptist Peace Fellowship
- Buddhist Peace Fellowship
- Catholic Peace Fellowship
- Church of God Peace Fellowship
- Disciples Peace Fellowship
- Episcopal Peace Fellowship
- Jewish Peace Fellowship
- Lutheran Peace Fellowship
- Orthodox Peace Fellowship – North America
- Presbyterian Peace Fellowship
- Unitarian Universalist Peace Fellowship
Read more about this topic: Fellowship Of Reconciliation
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