A commemoration of the abolition of slavery in the past and a recognition of slavery in the world today was part of France Yearly Meeting held at the Centre des Naudières near…
Quakers in Scotland and ForcesWatch presented a petition to the Scottish Parliament on Thursday 15 September calling for greater scrutiny, guidance and consultation on the visits…
More than forty Meeting houses opened to the public during Heritage Open Days, from 8-11 September.
The need to ‘change the narrative for peace’ via the media will be addressed by Friends in Darlington in a conference organised by the Northern Friends Peace Board.
National Inter Faith Week takes place this year from 13-20 November.
Twenty Friends held Meeting for Worship in the James Turrell designed Deer Shelter Skyspace at Yorkshire Sculpture Park in West Bretton, near Wakefield, on Friday 9 September.
The future development of the Living Witness group and how Friends address the challenges of implementing the Canterbury Commitment is to be addressed by Friends.
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…
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