‘Just keep going.’ Deb Weiler, of the Athens Religious Society of Friends, encouraging Quakers to advocate for peace.…
by Rebecca Hardy
Eighty singers from the Quaker-founded Climate Choir Movement gathered at Liverpool Street Station in London last weekend to urge Andy Burnham to reject the Rosebank oilfield.
Britain Yearly Meeting (BYM) has joined talks with a Jamaican government delegation which petitioned Charles Mountbatten Windsor over reparation for enslavement.
Quakers are getting ready for this weekend’s Silent Walking Vigil For Peace, with around 1,000 people expected.
A former reporter for the Friend was among a group of Christians witnessing outside a far-right conference last month.
Britain Yearly Meeting (BYM) has welcomed the raft of measures announced by the UK government last week which seek to reset British policy towards Israel.
Philadelphia Yearly Meeting (PYM) has welcomed a US appeals court ruling protecting Quaker Meeting houses from unrestricted immigration enforcement.
have raised concerns about plans to grow Scotland’s military industry. The plans were announced in the Scottish government’s new five-year ‘Programme for Government’.
Two historic Quaker Meeting houses will mark major anniversaries this month, with celebrations taking place in Norwich and Ifield, Sussex, on the weekend of 19-20 September.
Quakers are hosting a Green Investment Roadshow at Friends House next week.
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