One of Meeting for Sufferings representatives’ tasks is to review Yearly Meetings (YMs). A wider survey of YMs will take place in October, so Friends reported on their…
Meeting for Sufferings received two submissions on gender diversity: a minutes from Young Friends General Meeting (YFGM) and an initial statement from Quaker Life Central…
‘Proceed with caution’ seemed to be the message to Britain Yearly Meeting (BYM) trustees in the ‘Support for Meetings – beyond the Vibrancy pilot’ session. The afternoon…
Quakers were asked to consider whether the definition of an attender for sixteen- to eighteen-year-olds should be changed for the annual Tabular Statement. This discussion was…
A Quaker peace campaigner who claimed she was deliberately run over by a car has been awarded £15,000 in compensation after a long-standing fight for justice.
More than 100 Quakers from England, Scotland and Wales came to Westminster last week to take part in ‘The Time is Now’, a mass lobby of parliament urging MPs to take action on…
The average level of ‘global peacefulness’ improved for the first time in five years, according to the 2019 Global Peace Index launched at Quaker House in Brussels last month.…
The Northern Friends Peace Board (NFPB) has called for the UK to ‘act to reduce tensions and commit to nuclear disarmanent’ in the light of escalating conflict with Iran,…
The annual Refugee Week got off to a good start when the government announced that the UK will resettle 5,000 of the world’s most vulnerable refugees in the first year of a new…
Friends will be donning their wellies this weekend when, for what is thought to be the first year ever, there will be a Britain Yearly Meeting (BYM) presence at Glastonbury…
A Quaker theatre company performed in front of an audience of sixty inmates at a prison in the south west of England this month.
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