'Four Friends were added to the Court and Prison Register.'

Meeting for Sufferings: Opening business

'Four Friends were added to the Court and Prison Register.'

by Rebecca Hardy 7th October 2022

Eighty-four Quakers gathered online for Meeting for Suffering (MfS) on 1 October, with just fifteen in Friends House due to a train strike.

During opening worship, Friends heard a reading from Quaker faith & practice 19.57, urging business to be managed with ‘love and amity’. Margaret Bryan, clerk, then greeted the room saying they were ‘a small band of enthusiastic travellers’ and she was ‘glad to see so many online’.

Four Friends were added to the Court and Prison Register. These were: Sue Hampton, of Luton & Leighton Area Meeting; Phil Laurie, of Westminster and Faversham Local Meetings; Rajan Naidu, of Central England Area Meeting; and Arne Springorum, who worships with the Quaker worship group in Prague and attends Wandsworth Local Meeting. They were among fifty-one people who were held in prison ahead of court proceedings for action at Kingsbury Oil Terminal on 14 September. Rajan Naidu was sentenced to thirty-four days in prison. Sue Hampton, Arne Springorum and Phil Laurie received suspended sentences and were ordered to pay costs of over £400.

Friends then agreed a recommendation from Yearly Meeting Agenda Committee to hold Yearly Meeting on 26-30 July 2024, at Friends House, London and online.


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