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Friends stand with Standing Rock Sioux
American Quakers staged a protest in New York City on 13 September in solidarity with Standing Rock Sioux, who are battling efforts to build an oil pipe-line through their ancestral lands.
Quaker Meeting in new television crime thriller
Several scenes in the new eight-part ITV/Netflix conspiracy thriller Paranoid have been filmed in Frandley Meeting House in Cheshire.
Quakers in France reflect on slavery
A commemoration of the abolition of slavery in the past and a recognition of slavery in the world today was part of France Yearly Meeting held at the Centre des Naudières near Nantes in late July.
Scottish Friends back petition
Quakers in Scotland and ForcesWatch presented a petition to the Scottish Parliament on Thursday 15 September calling for greater scrutiny, guidance and consultation on the visits of armed forces to schools in Scotland.
Friends open doors
More than forty Meeting houses opened to the public during Heritage Open Days, from 8-11 September.
Claridge House welcomes visitors again
Claridge House, the Quaker retreat centre between Dormansland and Lingfield, has reopened after being closed for six months due to an extensive programme of refurbishment.
Borderless Friendship flourishes
The plight of refugees was highlighted when Friends gathered recently for the River Rhine Border Meeting.
Changing the narrative for peace
The need to ‘change the narrative for peace’ via the media will be addressed by Friends in Darlington in a conference organised by the Northern Friends Peace Board.
Inter Faith Week celebrates eighth year
National Inter Faith Week takes place this year from 13-20 November.
Meeting in the Sky
Twenty Friends held Meeting for Worship in the James Turrell designed Deer Shelter Skyspace at Yorkshire Sculpture Park in West Bretton, near Wakefield, on Friday 9 September.