The Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded to the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN).
Quakers have welcomed the decision by the Scottish government to ban fracking. Friends in 2013 decided nationally to stop investing in companies that extracted fossil fuels.
Friends who witnessed against the Defence and Security Equipment International (DSEI) arms fair in London last month and who were subsequently arrested have been named.
Quakers were observers at the United Nations in New York in late September as a historic treaty, which aims to rid the world of nuclear weapons, gained fifty nation states’…
The rules governing religious education teaching are not ‘fit for purpose’, a new report states.
Stephen Cox, a member of North London Area Meeting, has signed a two-novel publishing deal with Jo Fletcher Books, an imprint of Quercus.
A Meeting for Worship to mark the United Nations International Day of Peace was held on the afternoon of Thursday 21 September at the Quaker Service Memorial at the National…
Three Quakers from Cheltenham Meeting recently travelled four hours to support an anti-fracking group of grandmothers and parents protesting at Preston New Road in Lancashire.
Friends throughout Britain are preparing for Quaker Week 2017 and completing arrangements for events they are holding.
Three-quarters of UK adults oppose the promotion of military exports to human rights abusers, a survey coinciding with the Defence and Security Equipment International (DSEI) 2017…
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