Quakers in Birmingham have been invited to take part in a survey to help find out how Birmingham Churches Together is working.
A key item in the morning session of Meeting for Sufferings on Saturday 7 April was the report of the group appointed to review the work of the Britain Yearly Meeting…
A minute from Southern Marches Area Meeting (AM) on ‘‘‘Post-truth world” – What can we do?’ was heard at Meeting for Sufferings on 7 April at Friends House in London.
A letter to Ireland Yearly Meeting 2018, which meets in Limerick on 18-22 July, was agreed at Meeting for Sufferings.
Friends travelled from all parts of Britain to Friends House on Saturday 7 April for Meeting for Sufferings with appeal processes, sustainability, truth and integrity among the…
‘If we are listening to each other, we should be able to reach clarity,’ Beryl Milner told Meeting for Sufferings on 7 April. She is the convenor of the Appeal Review Group –…
A statement on the ongoing conflict in Gaza has been released by Friends House calling on ‘the Israeli military to end their violent use of live gunfire on unarmed protesters, in…
One year after the two-child limit policy with regard to child tax credits was introduced, faith representatives, including Paul Parker, recording clerk of Britain Yearly Meeting,…
George Cadbury has been voted Birmingham’s ‘top Brummie’ in a Twitter-based vote organised by the Birmingham St Mary’s hospice.
Pendle Hill Area Meeting is assisting in a partnership aimed at reconnecting local people with Pendle Hill, where George Fox had a vision of ‘a great people to be gathered’ in…
Quakers from around the country were among those who gathered at the Aldermaston Atomic Weapons Establishment in Berkshire on Easter Sunday to mark sixty years since the first…
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