Friends welcome news that Ed Miliband plans to legislate to ban fracking ‘at the earliest opportunity’…
by Rebecca Hardy
Britain Yearly Meeting (BYM) issued a statement in response to the antisemitic attack of a Manchester synagogue on Yom Kippur last week. ‘We offer our love, support and…
Quakers in Yorkshire supported a global call to close foreign military bases this week.
Four Quakers were among fifteen climate protesters cleared of charges that they were planning to ‘lock on’ at the UK’s largest power station, Drax, last August.
The BBC Daily Service explored the concept of ‘Love Your Neighbour’ last week, echoing the theme of Quaker Week and World Quaker Day.
Britain Yearly Meeting (BYM) welcomed the UK government’s ‘long overdue’ recognition of the State of Palestine last month, but said it does nothing to ‘absolve the UK of…
Paris and Ile de France Quakers were given eleventh-hour permission to witness for peace in the French capital last month.
One hundred members of the Climate Choir came together for a ‘flashmob’ performance in London to call on the government to reject the Rosebank oilfield.
Southampton Quakers displayed an exhibition about transatlantic chattel slavery for a Heritage Open Day.
The parents of Shadi Khoury, a former student from Friends Ramallah School in the West Bank, have asked for prayers, support and advocacy after their son was convicted in an…
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