Quaker Values in Education (QVinE) launches a collection of personal reflections at their conference in Friends House on 30 April.
A group of Britain Yearly Meeting employees has written to the Treasury to conscientiously object to their taxes being used ‘in war, for war, or for the preparation for war’.
Diane Randall, executive secretary of the Friends Committee on National Legislation (FCNL) in the United States, gave the keynote address at the Quaker World Relations Committee…
Friends from Inverness Local Meeting are taking part in a silent, women-only vigil on Saturday 30 April. They are among the members of ‘Women in Black’ who meet in Inverness…
Dying Matters Awareness Week 2016 will take place from 9 to 15 May, its organisers have announced.
Trident was top of the agenda at a recent workshop organised by the Northern Friends Peace Board (NFPB) at Swarthmoor Hall, Cumbria. Eighteen people attended the event, which was…
More people were given the death penalty in 2015 than at any point in the last quarter century, according to a new report from Amnesty International on capital punishment.
A London judge has dismissed charges against peace activists who blocked the road outside September’s Defence Systems and Equipment International (DSEI) arms fair. The eight…
Participants at a ‘Nonviolence and Just Peace’ gathering held in Rome on 11-13 April have issued a statement declaring that they are ‘called to take a clear stand for…
The Global Day of Action on Military Spending (GDAMS) took place on 18 April. According to the Global Campaign on Military Spending UK, the United Kingdom is the sixth highest…
‘The New Militarism’, a Quakers in Yorkshire event, took place at Huddersfield Meeting House on Saturday 16 April. The programme included a performance of Over the Top by…
Ireland Yearly Meeting (IYM) has committed to developing an investment strategy by January 2017 to ethically invest all of its funds in sustainable and peaceful companies, and to…
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