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=== In other countries=== The majority of Quakers live in countries not mentioned above. Kenya, for example, has a Quaker population larger than that of any other country.<ref name="FWCC2012">{{cite web|url=http://library.constantcontact.com/download/get/file/1100905870059-495/FINAL_map_123012.pdf|title=Finding Quakers Around the World|publisher=Friends World Committee for Consultation|access-date=2017-06-12|archive-date=26 September 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150926225755/http://library.constantcontact.com/download/get/file/1100905870059-495/FINAL_map_123012.pdf|url-status=live}}</ref> The Friends Church in Kenya "condemns homosexuality".<ref name="FCK"/> Generally in [[Africa]] and [[Latin America]], most meetings are programmed and under the care of either FUM or EFI although meetings in Central and Southern Africa are unprogrammed;<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.dosima.org/communities/quakers|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080706124511/http://www.dosima.org/communities/quakers|archive-date=2008-07-06|title=Quakers : Central and Southern Africa Yearly Meeting|date=6 July 2008}}</ref> in [[Asia]], many of the meetings are unprogrammed and have connections with more liberal groups elsewhere in the world. African Friends in general are supportive of the position taken by FUM. In 2007, at the first meeting of FUM held in Africa, the clerk of Uganda Yearly Meeting delivered a devotional in which he quoted Romans 1:8β32, saying that "homosexuals and even those who support them are worthy of death." Although in a later letter of apology he said that he was referring to spiritual death, many more liberal Quakers found his comments hateful.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.quakerinfo.com/fum.shtml|title=Friends United Meeting and the Dually-affiliated Yearly Meetings|first=Bill|last=Samuel|website=Quakerinfo.com|access-date=14 November 2009|archive-date=13 December 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101213013437/http://www.quakerinfo.com/fum.shtml|url-status=live}}</ref>
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