Friends across the world will mark the two-year anniversary of war in Ukraine with an extended international worship for peace.
A Tottenham Friend had their request for bail approved last week, after spending over a year in prison for climate activism.
Britain Yearly Meeting (BYM) has written to the prime minister calling for the UK to use diplomatic pressure to urge Israel to change course.
Liverpool Quakers are upholding a local Friend on trial for climate witness this week.
Friends are being urged to write to MPs and sign a petition to save the Inter Faith Network (IFN) from closure.
The Quaker Socialist Society (QSS) discussed how state schools and Quaker private schools can promote ‘life-long Quaker values’ last month.
Quakers were involved in a ‘Trees of Peace’ installation on display in Coventry Council House last month; it will be touring Coventry libraries for the rest of 2024. The…
Polls suggest that the European electorate is increasingly concerned with climate change, poverty, and public health, Quaker Council for European Affairs (QCEA) has said.
Following the International Court of Justice (ICJ) ruling that ‘there is a plausible risk Israel is committing genocide against Palestinians in Gaza’, Britain Yearly Meeting…
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