Paul Parker, recording clerk of Britain Yearly Meeting, has joined twenty faith representatives in signing a letter calling on the UK government to end the ‘hostile…
Bewdley and Worcester Quakers held a peaceful protest on 21 July against a march by the English Defence League (EDL).
Lichfield Friends have released a statement in support of their ‘Muslim friends’.
A working party of Quakers and others has been set up to look at ways in which Friends in the UK can be involved in an international march campaigning for Sustainable Development…
Elizabeth Fry, the leading Quaker prison reformer, has made it onto a list of the ‘100 Women Who Changed the World’.
The Quaker Asylum and Refugee Network (QARN) has welcomed a suggestion made by MP Kate Green to extend the twenty-eight-day period between a person being given refugee status and…
The Quaker Council for European Affairs (QCEA) has published a report on what it describes as a ‘call to action against the tide of anti-migrant hate-speech in Europe today’.
The third lesson in the joint Pax Christi/Quakers in Britain Religious Studies A-Level series has been published.
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