The Quaker MEP Molly Scott Cato refused to take part in a European election hustings in Gloucester Cathedral because the panel included a UKIP member.
Members of the Quaker Council for European Affairs (QCEA) were among the 30,000 people who took part in a march against nationalism and hate in Berlin this month. The ‘Ein Europa…
Northern Friends Peace Board (NFPB) has set up a new working group to support Quaker action against nuclear weapons at what it describes as ‘a time which is clearly particularly…
The Quaker author John Lampen has reached out to Friends asking for help in supporting and publicising Quaker music including what he calls ‘closet’ Quaker composers.
The Chester Quaker Economic and Climate Justice Group hosted a talk this week exploring how moving towards environmental sustainability could simultaneously bring real improvements…
The ground-breaking anti-war artist Peter Kennard made a passionate case for the role of art in communicating and driving climate action at the launch of the Grantham Art Prize…
Quaker Council for European Affairs (QCEA) joined thirteen other civil society organisations last week to express their ‘deep concern’ about proposed EU military spending in…
Quakers took part in the protests at Westminster Abbey this month against its thanksgiving service for fifty years of constant patrols by nuclear submarines.
Over 100 people gathered at the Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution for a local-election hustings last month convened by Bath Quakers on the theme of climate and…
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