Britain Yearly Meeting (BYM) has welcomed the UK government’s suspension of some arms exports to Israel, but has called for a full ban.
A Norwich Friend has called on the new Labour government to reconsider signing the UN Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons.
A Woodbrooke course highlighting the campaign to make ecocide an international crime starts this weekend. The two online sessions will be run by Hilary Saunders who has been…
Chichester Friends hosted a public walking tour of local Quaker landmarks to celebrate Fox400.
Britain Yearly Meeting (BYM) has highlighted a United Nations report saying the UK should curb racist hate speech by politicians and public figures.
The Peace Museum in Bradford has reopened at a new site, four years after it closed at the start of the Covid lockdown. Its new location in Salts Mill, in Saltaire, includes a new…
Britain Yearly Meeting (BYM) is calling on the government to restore the right to protest and freedom of speech. In a letter to Yvette Cooper, the home secretary, Paul Parker,…
Barnt Green Quakers opened their Meeting house last month for an interfaith event to ease tensions after riots across the UK. Around fifty walkers – including Christians,…
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