Quakers are celebrating the moratorium on fracking in the UK that the government announced last week, but pressed for an outright ban.
Quakers expressed delight at the news that veteran peace campaigner Bruce Kent has been awarded the 2019 International Peace Bureau (IPB) Sean MacBride Peace Prize.
Nearly 100 anti-fracking groups and campaigners have signed a letter to Boris Johnson calling for fracking to be banned. Friends who have long campaigned against the practice of…
A Quaker author joined forty writers including Simon Schama, Susie Orbach and Ali Smith at a two-hour literary event in support of Extinction Rebellion (XR). Lucy-Anne Holmes, from…
Twelve members of the Quaker Lesbian Group (QLG) met to discuss the Quaker testimony of equality last month for their second annual weekend gathering.
Seventy Friends who gathered for the Quaker Mental Health Forum last month have shared a minute for Friends.
Quakers are among a coalition of national and local charities, anti-poverty organisations and faith groups who have urged the country’s leaders to act now to end hunger in the UK.
Gretchen Castle, the general secretary of Friends Worldwide Committee for Consultation (FWCC), has been appointed the chairperson for the Conference of Secretaries of Christian…
A blue plaque has been unveiled at Woodbrooke to mark the 150th birthday anniversary of Mohandas Gandhi – and to honour his speech there exactly eighty-eight years ago.
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