‘It undermines the possibility of reaching net zero.’…
by Rebecca Hardy
A London Quaker met with his local MP this month over concerns about a new government proposal around Artificial Intelligence (AI) and copyright.
Leiston Meeting is shining the spotlight on ‘preparing for the unexpected’ by helping people to plan for after their deaths.
Britain Yearly Meeting (BYM) has told the Women and Equalities Parliamentary Committee’s inquiry into community cohesion that it is ‘deeply worried about growing divisions in…
The peace education team for Britain Yearly Meeting (BYM) launched an online course with the Open University (OU) on 5 February.
Quakers have said that the billions in profits announced by Shell last week show that ‘fossil fuel companies are more than capable of providing compensation to those they have…
Cotteridge Quakers and St Francis Church hosted an evening with their new MP last month, about the environment and energy.
Quakers took part in a protest led by Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND) and Drone Wars at RAF Fairford in Gloucestershire last month. The witness outside the main gates was to…
Britain Yearly Meeting (BYM) has said that it is ‘horrified’ by Donald Trump’s proposal to ‘take over’ and ‘own’ Gaza and ethnically cleanse two million Palestinians.
A group of US Quakers have filed a lawsuit to stop immigration authorities from enforcing a new policy in, or near, their Meeting houses.
The Quaker climate protester Gaie Delap was released from prison on home detention curfew last week. It is understood that the Just Stop Oil (JSO) activist has been fitted with a…
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