Friends of the Earth (FoE) and local campaigners including Friends are calling Greg Clark, the secretary of state for business, energy and industrial strategy not to give final…
Christian Aid is issuing a renewed plea for urgent, comprehensive global action to help the twenty million people affected by food shortages caused by severe drought and conflict…
Hertford meeting house will be hosting a concert in early October entitled ‘Walk Cheerfully over the World: Quaker testimonies in music and song’.
A play about conscientious objectors in world war one written by a London Friend is on tour this autumn. The play is entitled This Evil Thing and was written by Michael Mears of…
A-Level students at The Mount School in York achieved a 100 per cent pass rate, with seventy-nine achieving A*-B grades.
Llangollen Meeting in Wales and Lichfield Meeting in England have become the first two Sanctuary Meetings in Britain.
The US Embassy has declined to accept a letter from a delegation of journalists, writers and peace activists which calls on the United States government to stop its nuclear…
The American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) has issued a report reflecting on the organisation’s work in Korea over the last sixty-five years. Engaging North Korea – Volume…
French authorities must provide basic amenities to refugees in Calais in the future.
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