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Liverpool Friends promote sanctuary
Liverpool Meeting House was the setting for a City of Sanctuary fair on Saturday 9 July. The event featured sixteen organisations ranging from Christian Aid to a local Congolese Association. It was designed to ‘bring people together to share work, gain new ideas, offer help, pledge support and ask questions’, the...
Quaker sampler returns to Ireland
A sampler stitched by an Irish Quaker more than two centuries ago has found its way ‘home’ from Australia.
Civic roles for York Friends
For the first time in York’s history the mayoral party is from the Green Party, and three local Quakers are among those involved.
Friends school gathering
Seventeen students from five Quaker schools attended the annual Friends Schools Gathering at the Woodbrooke Quaker Study Centre in Birmingham.
Friends arrested at Burghfield
Three Quakers were arrested at the Atomic Weapons Establishment (AWE) Burghfield on 27 June for their part in a nonviolent action outside the gates of the factory near Reading during ‘No Faith in Trident’ Day.
Meeting for Sufferings: BYM trustees’ report
Meeting for Sufferings met at Friends House in London on Saturday 2 July and, unusually, shared the building with about 900 joyfully singing Catholics. The first item of business was the Britain Yearly Meeting (BYM) trustees’ report of their meeting held from 17 to 19 June at Bull Street Meeting House in Birmingham. Their...
Meeting for Sufferings: Changes to senior management
Ingrid Greenhow, clerk of Britain Yearly Meeting (BYM) trustees, told Meeting for Sufferings that changes to Management Meeting were approved at the BYM trustee meeting in June.
Meeting for Sufferings: Refugees and asylum seekers
Minutes from Notts and Derby Area Meeting and Mid-Essex Area Meeting concerning the refugee crisis were sent to Meeting for Sufferings.
Meeting for Sufferings: Arms sales to Saudi Arabia
Helen Drewery, general secretary of Quaker Peace & Social Witness (QPSW), updated Meeting for Sufferings on work being undertaken regarding UK arms sales to Saudi Arabia.
Meeting for Sufferings: Taxes for peace
Meeting for Sufferings was told of recent developments towards conscientious objection to military taxation.