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Nuclear waste trains threaten 2012 Olympics say activists
The 2012 Olympics could be put at risk by trains carrying nuclear waste through London, according to warnings from local campaigners. They peacefully marched around the Olympic Park last weekend to express their concern. The Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND) continues to criticise the moving of nuclear waste around Britain… -
Labour leadership hopefuls share faith credentials at hustings
'Values’ was the word on everyone’s lips as the five candidates for the Labour Party leadership pitched for religious support and spoke about the role of faith in their own lives. They answered questions, in a packed room of about 300 people, at a hustings run by the Christian Socialist…
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Values for money: divesting from BP
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Methodists take action to reduce carbon emissions
Methodists have become the first large faith group in the UK to introduce carbon reduction measures that are binding on all their local churches. They have pledged an eighty per cent cut in carbon emissions by 2050. The decision has put pressure on other faith groups to follow suit. Triumph…
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Scottish Friends attend Pride Scotia
Members of some Scottish faith communities marched through Edinburgh in Pride Scotia 2010, at the end of last month. Their aim was to 'stand up and be counted against the growing wave of religious extremism which, all too often, preaches a message of intolerance and exclusion,' explained a spokesman.
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Meeting for Sufferings July 2010: news in brief
Yearly Meeting Gathering 2011 theme ‘Growing in the Spirit – changing the way we live to sustain the world we live in’ is the theme for Yearly Meeting Gathering in Canterbury in 2011. The subject of sustainability will be a key focus for Friends for the next year and preparation… -
Putting criminal justice on the Yearly Meeting agenda
Friends House received a response from the UK Border Agency in reply to a letter sent to the former minister of justice about the detention of children and asylum seekers. -
Refurbishments at Friends House
It is a difficult time for Britain Yearly Meeting (BYM) committees as they adjust their programmes of work to comply with ‘A Framework for Action 2009-14’ and indicate how they would respond should the current level of resourcing become difficult to sustain. -
Meeting for Sufferings July 2010: Is the word ‘spouse’ archaic?
The struggle to find broadly acceptable, and meaningful, terminology to use in documents and records has been a defining characteristic of Quakerism. It is an important, challenging and at times very sensitive issue, especially in the times we live in. In the consideration of the revision of chapter 16 (Quaker… -
Quakers defend BP investment
Britain Yearly Meeting (BYM) has defended its investment of over half a million pounds in BP. BYM, the organisation of Quakers across England, Scotland and Wales, has a higher proportion of its investments in the oil giant than in any other business. BYM say it has engaged with BP on…
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