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.
A group of Japanese students from Friends School Tokyo stayed at Woodbrooke this month to learn about Quaker history.
Quaker activist and academic Alastair McIntosh gave an interview on the High Profile website about the influence of his spirituality on his work.
A play based on a Lincolnshire pacifist community that included several Quakers who grew up around the villages of Holton-cum-Beckering and Legsby, opened at the Edinburgh Fringe…
Friends in Kent hosted a stall at the War and Peace Show near Paddock Wood, Kent last month.
Friends struggling with addiction do not always feel fully supported by their Local Meetings, it was reported at the Quaker Action on Alcohol and Drugs (QAAD) conference last…
The Library of the Society of Friends marked the 300th anniversary of William Penn’s death on 30 July by posting a story on its online blog ‘Quaker Strongrooms’ listing some…
Quaker Concern for Animals (QCA) has announced a new partnership with the organisation Greyhound Compassion in a bid to raise awareness over the issue of cruelty in the greyhound…
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