Quakers throughout Britain will be supporting a wide range of events on Hiroshima Day, 6 August.
The Daily Mail has apologised to the Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust (JRCT) for referring to it as a ‘pro-terrorist charity’.
Friends between the ages of fourteen and twenty-one will consider Yearly Meeting business alongside Meeting for Sufferings on Saturday 3 December.
Panels from the Quaker Tapestry are once more on the road, with twenty of them destined for Chelmsford Cathedral next month. The twenty panels will include those on conscientious…
On 19 July a Ten Minute Rule Bill arguing for the extension of the conscientious objection law into the tax system was read in parliament. The second reading will be 2 December.
At its recent annual general meeting (AGM), the Quaker Asylum and Refugee Network (QARN) discussed its current aims in relation to its ten-year-old constitution.
A peace pole put up by Stourbridge Friends and Churches Together in Stourbridge just two months ago has been destroyed.
A United States senate candidate who is a Quaker has received online death threats because she chose not to take the pledge of allegiance.
The General Assembly of the United Reformed Church (URC) has voted in favour of allowing its local churches to conduct and register marriages for same sex couples.
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