Friends in Zimbabwe have reported that they have been greatly affected by the violence arising from fuel increases last month. Several people were killed during protests in the…
Friends in Malvern are celebrating the news that the Defence Procurement, Research, Technology and Exportability (DPRTE) arms fair arranged for 28 March has been ‘chased’ from…
Hitchin Quakers held a special Meeting for Worship for Business this month to consider ways to heal the divisions in society caused by Brexit.
Dundee Meeting has decided to return to its five-storey Meeting house after a two and a half year process of discernment.
Canon Noel Beattie, founder of the Lifting the Stone Coalition/Anti-Slavery Network in the Marches, has thanked Southern Marches Area Meeting for what he describes as their…
The Quaker Council for European Affairs (QCEA) has launched a new report on peace education arguing for the EU to adopt a ‘multi-layered’ approach. It calls for a ‘cohesive,…
A forty-one-year-old Friend has started a Quaker group in Florence, Italy after ‘craving’ the silence of a Meeting.
Thirty-three Friends gathered at Sheffield Meeting House last month for the annual two-day Quaker Centre Gathering.
Britain Yearly Meeting is urging action against proposed bills around immigration and climate change. Suki Ferguson, Quaker Peace & Social Witness communications coordinator,…
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