A US Quaker-founded NGO has closed after almost fifty years of working in Nicaragua due to the country’s desperate problems under president Daniel Ortega.
Northern Friends Peace Board (NFPB) has put its name to a letter urging the prime minister to seek peace in a time ‘when communities are being fragmented by financial hardship…
Friends in Yorkshire have supported a call made by a Quaker sustainability expert for councils to commit to more ecological building schemes.
Friends House Hospitality Limited is celebrating the news that it has received a Green Tourism Gold accreditation and been shortlisted for the London Venue Awards 2019.
The Friends World Committee for Consultation (FWCC) hosted a webinar last month for Quakers to learn more about a video in which Friends share their personal stories on…
Quakers have been sharing a new study by a leading German think tank which slams the notion that nuclear power is ‘clean energy’ and claims that it is ‘never profitable’.…
Quaker MP Ruth Cadbury launched a blistering attack on Boris Johnson, the incoming prime minister, at Theresa May’s final prime minister’s questions (PMQs). The Labour MP…
Britain Yearly Meeting (BYM) joined over 120 signatories to send an open letter to the new prime minister urging him to make a lasting commitment to welcome refugees.
Stockport Quakers joined the town’s Pride parade last month for the first time.
Paul Parker, recording clerk of Britain Yearly Meeting (BYM), spoke at Coventry Hiroshima Day last week to remember the dropping of the nuclear bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in…
The seventeenth century Quaker Mary Dyer is the subject of a new film based on a one-woman play that is being performed at Spring Friends Meeting House in the United States.
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