Today in history

December 27

1914

The International Fellowship of Reconciliation (IFOR), an inter-religious peace group, is founded in Cambridge, Great Britain.


“The International Fellowship of Reconciliation (IFOR) is an international spiritually-based movement composed of people who commit themselves to active nonviolence as a way of life and as a means of transformation – personal, social, economic and political.”

“Your goal is, in my opinion, the only reasonable one
and to make it prevail is of vital importance.”
–Albert Einstein, in a letter to the FOR

1971
Vietnam Veterans Against the War staged a peace protest at historic Betsy Ross House, Philadelphia.

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