Britain Yearly Meeting (BYM) briefed parliamentarians on a bill dealing with boycotts of foreign states before its third reading in the House of Commons last week.
Quaker groups and Children’s Meetings are being invited to make a short film to celebrate the 400th anniversary of George Fox’s birth.
Friends have been sharing thoughts on the links between Quaker worship and meditation.
Two families from the Quaker Social Action (QSA) Cook Up project have been given ten days or fewer to leave their accommodation. This is despite rules that say refugees claiming…
Nominations for the second Quaker Truth & Integrity Group (QTIG) award opened on 1 January. The award will be made to an individual or organisation in recognition of an…
A Manchester Friend has been celebrating after a leading timber company withdrew a lawsuit against indigenous forest defenders in Borneo.
The year began with a call from Britain Yearly Meeting (BYM), saying there was a ‘pressing need to defend our human rights this year as more anti-democratic measures are in the…
Quakers from Britain and Ireland visited Buckingham Palace in the spring after being invited to offer a ‘Loyal Address’ – a historic entitlement to address the monarch.
The ongoing war in Israel and Gaza dominated the last three months of the year, after the Hamas attack on Israel on 7 October took hostages and killed over 1,200 Israelis. By…
Quakers campaigned for climate justice in a year that would be ‘the warmest on record’, scientists said with ‘near certainty’. By November, they said it was 1.43C above the…
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