The contentious, difficult, knotty and puzzling issues of how money does and doesn’t work for people are to being addressed by London Quakers in early October.
Quakers throughout Britain will be marking the ninth annual Quaker Week from 1-9 October by welcoming visitors to share the stillness of silent Quaker worship in their Meetings and…
Paul Parker, recording clerk of Britain Yearly Meeting, is one of 200 leaders of faith communities who have signed an open letter to Theresa May calling for urgent changes to the…
Quakers in Australia have written to Malcolm Turnbull, the prime minister, to urge him to put marriage equality before the Australian parliament rather than holding a plebiscite on…
The Peace Hub in Birmingham has chosen ‘Think Global, Act Local, Get Equal’ as its theme for September and October.
A free online course on early Quakerism has attracted more than 5,000 students from all over the world.
Eighty-two Friends aged from fifteen to eighteen joined eleven adult volunteers for this year’s Senior Conference for young Friends in the southern half of England.
Each year on 21 September the World Council of Churches calls on churches to observe the UN International Day of Prayer for Peace. It is also the UN–sponsored International Day…
A report just released by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation (JRF) has highlighted the close link between poverty and those who voted for Brexit in the EU referendum.
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