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Friend takes drugs concern to UN
A member of Bournemouth Coastal Area Meeting will take a statement to the UN General Assembly Special Session (UNGASS) on the global drug problem.
Vatican hosts event on Catholic peacemaking
A groundbreaking conference took place at the Vatican this week, when eighty delegates gathered to review the Catholic teaching on peacemaking.
Oakham Friends return to Meeting house
Quakers in Oakham, Rutland, described themselves as ‘very happy to be back home’ as they returned to their newly renovated Meeting house. For almost a year Friends met in the nearby Chapel of St John’s and St Anne’s. The Meeting’s Caroline Trutz told the Friend that it...
Turning the world upside-down
Some eighty people, among them ten members of Quaker Peace & Social Witness (QPSW) staff, gathered recently in Derbyshire for the department’s spring conference.
Framing the Quaker Tapestry
A short film explaining the conserving and mounting of the Quaker Tapestry is now available to download from YouTube.
Meeting for Sufferings: Risks and logos
Some of the risks now faced by the Religious Society of Friends in Britain were highlighted at Meeting for Sufferings held at Friends House, London, on Saturday 2 April. Ingrid Greenhow, clerk of Britain Yearly Meeting (BYM) trustees, spoke to the minutes of the February 2016 trustees’ meeting. BYM treasurer Peter Ullathorne...
Meeting for Sufferings: Living out our faith
Britain Yearly Meeting is moving through a three-year arc, ‘Living out our faith’, Meeting for Sufferings clerk Ethel Livermore explained in the papers. At Yearly Meeting 2015, Sufferings was asked ‘to take the work on social injustice forward, coordinating the work of Local and Area Meetings [AMs] who might wish to...
Meeting for Sufferings: Minutes from Meetings
A number of minutes from Area Meetings were brought to Sufferings. A concern over the use of the phrase ‘Quakers in Britain’ came from Cambridgeshire Area Meeting. A response from recording clerk Paul Parker was included in the papers for Meeting for Sufferings, and the minute was forwarded to Britain...
Meeting for Sufferings: QWRC renewed
Anne Bennett, clerk of the Quaker World Relations Committee (QWRC), spoke to its first annual report.
Meeting for Sufferings: Concerns are a concern
Meeting for Sufferings clerk Ethel Livermore described testing concerns as ‘something that a lot of Friends struggle with’. Her thoughts were echoed by Friends, one of whom described bringing forward a concern as ‘quite a bruising experience’.