Christian Aid has issued an appeal to support its famine relief work in East Africa. In Kenya, home to around 120,000 Friends, the government has declared a national emergency.…
Quakers around the country have been sharing their thoughts on refugees and asylum seekers with two staff members of Friends House who are presently engaged on a ‘Forced…
Pupils at The Mount, the Quaker girls’ school in York, raised awareness of the plight of the city’s homeless by holding a sleepout on 24 March.
Albuquerque Friends Meeting, New Mexico, is providing sanctuary for a Honduran grandmother at risk of deportation.
Three Northern Friends Peace Board (NFPB) groups have been working to create peace-related workshops, resources on ‘Sustainable Security’, and on ways to promote alternative…
An urgent challenge to a teenage boy’s ‘prolonged solitary confinement’ in a London prison will be heard in the High Court.
The right to believe in God the way you want, and to practice a faith the way you believe, is a basic human right World Council of Churches (WCC) general secretary Olav Fykse Tveit…
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