2014 EMES Epistle

The 2014 EMES Epistle from the Europe and Middle East Section (FWCC)

Oekraine. | Photo: Drawing by Erik Dries.

To Friends everywhere,  We send you loving greetings from The Cultural Centre of St Thomas, in Strasbourg, where forty-seven of us, representing Quakers from eighteen European countries, have been holding our annual meeting. Meeting with each other, and with our Friends from the Quaker Youth Pilgrimage Committee (also meeting here), European and Middle East Young Friends (EMEYF), as well as visitors from the Friends World Committee for Consultation (FWCC) World Office, the Quaker Council for European Affairs (QCEA), the Quaker United Nations Office (QUNO) and Woodbrooke Quaker Study Centre, has meant times of joyful thankfulness, mixed with serious concerns for peace building arising from the growing unease and tensions across Europe and the world as we witness yet another time of political instability.

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