British universities are increasingly beholden to financial arrangements with arms firms due to Brexit and government cuts, an author who specialises in the arms trade has…
International Friends came together for a Quaker-led initiative to support communities and truck drivers crossing parts of Africa.
A Woodbrooke tutor, Val Jenner, led a Quaker all-age Meeting for Worship themed around tax justice to mark Tax Justice Sunday. The member of Selly Oak Meeting said the Zoom session…
The Book of Discipline Revision Committee has launched a creative project Open to New Light based on Quaker artistic contributions in order to inform their work.
The Friends of Color group has released an epistle calling on Quakers to heed its ‘Call to Action’ on the racial pandemic. ‘To our Friends in the wider Quaker world, we the…
Extinction Rebellion (XR) needs to ‘break out of the XR bubble’ and enable entire communities ‘to demand change’, says a new XR digital handbook that Quakers have been sharing.
The Quaker Africa Interest Group (QAIG) charities group has said that the situation in Africa is highly changeable as countries grapple with the differing challenges of the…
The Methodist Church has joined the United Reform Church in expressing support for Quaker Hannah Brock Womack, who was blocked from fully being the representative of the Fourth…
Huddersfield Friends have said they are ‘horrified’ that the death sentences of two Bahraini activists was upheld by Bahrain’s highest court despite international concern…
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