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Chichester Quakers host interfaith prayer service

02 November 2023 | by Rebecca Hardy | 0 comments

Chichester Friends hosted an interfaith prayer service for world peace this month. Around fifty people from numerous faiths (and no faith) and denominations met to witness for peace through prayers, readings and poems at the event on 11 October.

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Quaker advice to teachers on Israel and Palestine

02 November 2023 | by Rebecca Hardy | 0 comments

Teaching materials on Palestine and Israel have seen a ‘rapid uptake’ recently, according to the Britain Yearly Meeting (BYM) peace education team.

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New Faith Museum features Quaker teacup

FREE 02 November 2023 | by Rebecca Hardy | 0 comments

'Many Quakers joined the campaign to boycott the products of enslavement, such as dyes, cotton and sugar.' | Abolitionist teacup, courtesy Friends House Library

A new Faith Museum opened last month, showcasing a Quaker saucer and teacup as part of its collection.

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QARN prepares for 2024 general election

FREE 26 October 2023 | by Rebecca Hardy | 0 comments

'The leaflet highlights positive policies that could be adopted, to help create a fair, humane and supportive environment.' | Patch by Rosemary Crawley of QARN

Quaker Asylum and Refugee Network (QARN) has produced a new leaflet for Friends to share with MPs and party candidates on immigration issues.

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Quakers call for ceasefire

FREE 26 October 2023 | by Rebecca Hardy | 0 comments

Britain Yearly Meeting has joined American Friends Service Committee, Canadian Friends Service Committee, Friends Committee on National Legislation, and the Quaker United Nations Office, in calling for a ceasefire in Gaza.

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Huddersfield Peace Lecture on gender-based violence

26 October 2023 | by Rebecca Hardy | 0 comments

Huddersfield Friends held their annual peace lecture earlier this month. It was titled ‘From Yorkshire to Brazil and Back Again: Getting better responses to violence against women’.

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BYM ‘shocked and deeply saddened’ by Israel and Palestine

FREE 19 October 2023 | by Rebecca Hardy | 0 comments

‘It is time for everyone – including the international community – to recognise that no military solution will bring a permanent end to violence.' |

Quakers in Britain are shocked and deeply saddened by the major escalation of violence in Israel and Palestine, Britain Yearly Meeting (BYM) said last week.

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EAPPI volunteers safely home

FREE 19 October 2023 | by Rebecca Hardy | 0 comments

Two Irish nationals who monitor the human rights situation in Palestine, in a programme managed by Quakers in Britain, have been evacuated.

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Quakers flag state of UK prisons

19 October 2023 | by Rebecca Hardy | 0 comments

Quakers have spoken out about the conditions of prisoners, highlighted in a major newspaper investigation last month.

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Sexual assaults at army training college

19 October 2023 | by Rebecca Hardy | 0 comments

Nine rapes were reported to the police at Harrogate’s Army Foundation College last year, a Freedom of Information (FOI) request has shown.

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