A reenactment of George Fox’s first visit to Lichfield took place last month…
by Rebecca Hardy
More than ninety per cent of pupils are still attending the Quaker-founded Brummana High School in Lebanon, despite regular airstrikes.
Southampton Meeting House is being used by a local homelessness charity throughout the working week.
Quakers have backed a letter calling on the UK government to show leadership on climate justice among rich countries. The letter, signed by faith leaders, was part of a nationwide…
The BBC journalist Peter Taylor has been awarded the second Quaker Truth and Integrity Award, in recognition of his ‘outstanding’ work over fifty years, especially covering the…
A blue plaque has been installed at the former home of two Quaker abolitionists to mark Leeds’ anti-slavery links.
Following a decision made by Meeting for Sufferings (MfS) last month (see 25 October), Britain Yearly Meeting (BYM) has aligned itself with International Court of Justice (ICJ)…
Quaker Asylum Refugee Network (QARN) has highlighted a new report examining the experiences of homelessness among people refused asylum in London.
Quaker Social Action (QSA) ran a drop-in ‘Festival of Cookies’ last week, to target digital exclusion for Challenge Poverty Week England and Wales. A digital ‘cookie’ is a…
Quakers were among 175 signatories from churches urging the chancellor to scrap the two-child limit in social security payments.
Friends in Edinburgh heard about George Fox’s first steps into Scotland this month, almost 370 years after he was banished.
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