Around 150 London Friends met last month to consider progress towards forming a London Area Meeting (AM).
Faith communities are key to long-term harmony, Wajid Khan, faith minister, told a major conference at Friends House last week.
Quakers rallied for the Global Day of Action for COP29 last week, in the middle of the international climate summit.
Britain Yearly Meeting (BYM) has joined calls for the foreign secretary to urgently clarify comments he made in the House of Commons.
Sheffield Quakers are seeking Friends to join their discernment in how to witness against exploitation within the cocoa trade.
US Quakers have unveiled a new project aimed at supporting Meetings to heal interpersonal violence within their communities.
Quakers in the US have urged the US president Donald Trump ‘to uphold the US Constitution, to comply with national and international laws, and to respect the rights and dignity…
The Quaker-founded Glebe House, which closed this summer, was forced to permanently shut after concerns around its safeguarding practices and management.
Chester Quakers shone the spotlight on befriending prisoners last month.
Next year’s Quaker Universalist Group (QUG) conference will feature only women speakers, following concerns that this year’s four speakers were all male.
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