Britain Yearly Meeting (BYM) has joined Christian calls for an end to violence in Israel and Palestine.
Exeter Quakers held a ‘strictly silent’ vigil last week for peace.
An inmate who benefitted two years ago from the Christmas sock appeal for Wandsworth Prison, will this year be helping its relaunch.
The seven Area Meetings (AMs) of London have responded to an Invitation to Commit to forming a single AM for London.
Britain Yearly Meeting (BYM) hosted the UK’s first reparations conference organised by the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Afrikan Reparations (APPG-AR) this month.
Quakers from Telford, Wolverhampton and Malvern joined others to witness against the Specialist Defence and Security Convention arms fair (SDSC-UK) this month.
Chichester Friends hosted an interfaith prayer service for world peace this month. Around fifty people from numerous faiths (and no faith) and denominations met to witness for…
Teaching materials on Palestine and Israel have seen a ‘rapid uptake’ recently, according to the Britain Yearly Meeting (BYM) peace education team.
Britain Yearly Meeting has joined American Friends Service Committee, Canadian Friends Service Committee, Friends Committee on National Legislation, and the Quaker United Nations…
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