Quakers came together last weekend for the first joint blended Meeting of the London Area Meetings (AMs).
Friends have backed warnings that the government’s oil and gas bill threatens to undermine COP28 commitments.
The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC) Bill officially received royal assent in Scotland last week. The bill will come into force on 16 July 2024.
The bad weather that hit UK shores last week was named ‘Storm Jocelyn’ in honour of Quaker Jocelyn Bell Burnell.
The novelist Maggie Brookes discussed her new book about Quaker aid in the Spanish civil war in Friends House last week.
Quakers have called on the UK government to use peaceful means to resolve conflicts in the Middle East, following the attacks on Houthi targets in Yemen.
The social aspects of sustainability are crucial to progress in tackling climate change, a Quaker professor said last month. Yet around ninety per cent of funding – ‘certainly…
Friends joined a thousand people on a ‘Peace is Every Step’ walking silent prayer and vigil in London last weekend.
Britain Yearly Meeting (BYM)’s peace and disarmament team has highlighted a study showing that the first months of the conflict in Gaza produced more planet-warming gases than…
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