Two important subjects received thoughtful and perceptive discernment from Friends at Meeting for Sufferings, which was held in the Large Meeting House at Friends House, London, on…
Friends are invited to ‘get on their bikes’ in the summer of 2018. Meeting for Sufferings on 2 December heard details of a minute from Kendal & Sedbergh Area Meeting (AM)…
Benjamin Lay, the eighteenth century Quaker who used confrontational protest to persuade the Religious Society of Friends to oppose slavery, has been formally re-associated with…
Britain Yearly Meeting (BYM) is calling on the government to face up to the UK’s full obligations to tackle climate change.
The Nobel Peace PrizE for 2017 has been awarded to the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN), the global network that supported the 122 states backing the recent…
Three UN agencies (the World Health Organisation, UNICEF and the World Food Programme) have called on the Saudi-led coalition to end the blockade on Yemen that has stopped vital…
The Quaker Council for European Affairs (QCEA) made a presentation on refugees and migration to the Committee of Ministers (the body representing the forty-seven national…
Beatrice Fihn, director of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN – the 2017 Nobel peace prizewinner), was among 400 clergy, diplomats, campaigners and Nobel…
The Quaker Asylum and Refugee Network (QARN) is urging Friends to support Unlocking Detention – ‘a virtual tour’ of the UK’s detention centres that is currently offering a…
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