Two Tavistock Friends are on a 400-mile cycle across Cornwall and Devon to raise funds for a leading charity working for freedom from torture.
Australia Yearly Meeting has launched a new website to help inquirers from around the world find out information about Australian Friends.
The Quaker Universalist Group will be holding its annual conference in the Woodbrooke Quaker Study Centre this year from 5–7 May.
Working collaboratively is at the heart of the mission of the Quaker World Relations Committee (QWRC), Friends attending Meeting for Sufferings were told when they gathered in the…
A Quaker Recognised Body (QRB) is an independent group where concerned Friends explore a common interest, seek affirmation, or carry out witness.
The central role of the gathered Meeting for Worship in the life of Quakerism was highlighted at Meeting for Sufferings held at Friends House on Saturday 1 April. Ursula Fuller,…
A note from the Church Government Advisory Group (CGAG) concerning the proposed revision to section 14.40 of Quaker faith & practice was heard by Sufferings.
The draft of a letter of greeting from the Quaker World Relations Committee to Friends attending Ireland Yearly Meeting at the High School in Dublin over the weekend of 20-23 April…
Positive progress was made at the nuclear weapons treaty negotiations that recently concluded at the United Nations in New York.
The Quaker Peace Centre in Cape Town sent a letter to Jacob Zuma, president of South Africa, before he controversially sacked Pravin Gordhan, one of his leading critics, who is the…
A Quaker peace activist attempted to put a Saudi general under citizen’s arrest in London on Thursday for his part in the war in Yemen.
A new book on Airton Meeting House has prompted an intriguing question: is it the oldest extant Quaker Meeting house?
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