The first Meeting for Sufferings of 2017 was held in the George Fox Room at Friends House in London on Saturday 4 February and proved to be a very successful day of worship,…
The triennium of the present Meeting for Sufferings runs from Yearly Meeting 2015 to Yearly Meeting 2018. All members of Sufferings, which includes both representatives and…
‘Five households in Britain become homeless every hour,’ Jenny Brierley, clerk of the Quaker Housing Trust (QHT), told Meeting for Sufferings. Speaking to QHT’s Third…
Increasing concern over fracking for shale gas in Britain was the subject of a minute to Meeting for Sufferings from Pendle Hill Area Meeting. Drilling to see if fracking is…
Sufferings was asked to reflect on the lack of transparency and integrity in government and prompted to articulate ‘this developing concern’.
The draft Annual Report of Meeting for Sufferings for 2016, which had been prepared by the clerk working with the Arrangements Group, was given to Sufferings for approval.
Two Friends have been added to the court and prison register. Ian Bray, of Huddersfield Meeting (Brighouse West Yorkshire Area Meeting), was arrested on the 19 November 2016 with…
Sufferings heard that the aim of Yearly Meeting Gathering 2017, to be held in Warwick 29 July – 5 August, was to ‘create an inclusive, warm and loving atmosphere’ that would…
This week the High Court in London has been hearing a judicial review into the legality of UK arms exports to Saudi Arabia for use in the ongoing bombing of Yemen.
Scottish Friend Alastair McIntosh was a speaker at the annual Féile Bríde peace conference held in County Kildare in Ireland on 4 February.
Faith and science communities met earlier this week at Friends House in London as Quakers set out to build communication and support between them. Two interfaith luncheons were…
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