Peace campaigners have accused education secretary Gavin Williamson of ‘bending the truth’ over cadet forces in schools. According to the Peace Pledge Union (PPU), which…
Quakers came together online last week to hear the voices of people affected by the bombing in Gaza and the West Bank. The webinar called ‘Hearing from Gaza and the West Bank’,…
A historic house in the US is to honour an enslaved woman who saved the Quaker-built home from a fire set by the British during the American revolution. The woman, known as Dinah,…
‘Life, time and eternity’ was the theme for this year’s Quaker Universalist Group’s conference, with speakers including an anthropologist, a Christian retired vicar, a…
A new report by Quaker Council for European Affairs (QCEA) has said the European Union climate policy is ‘not always coherent’ with the bloc’s stance on peace and human…
The group of Friends who formed a Florence Meeting two years ago have relocated to an English cemetery with Quaker connections. Kirsten Hills, who grew up as an attender in…
A Quaker arrested for protesting during the January lockdown has received an apology from the police, as well as substantial damages.
Quaker Paul Parker has written about his first decade as recording clerk of Britain Yearly Meeting (BYM) in an article on the Quakers in Britain website. Recalling ten Quaker…
Quaker author Lucy-Anne Holmes has interviewed fifty-one women from all over the world for a book about sex. In Women on Top of the World – published in the US this month,…
Bookings will soon open for the 2021 Yearly Meeting Gathering (YMG), which is themed ‘For our comfort and discomfort: living equality and truth in a time of crisis’. Online…
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