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…
The Joseph Rowntree Foundation (JRF) has announced a new partnership with the University of Manchester. A new unit established by the two organisations will ‘promote inclusive…
Leaveners, the Quaker arts group, has worked with Dudley Museum & Art Gallery to bring together works of art that give historical insight into the lives of Black Country…
A member of Bournemouth Coastal Area Meeting will take a statement to the UN General Assembly Special Session (UNGASS) on the global drug problem.
A groundbreaking conference took place at the Vatican this week, when eighty delegates gathered to review the Catholic teaching on peacemaking.
Some eighty people, among them ten members of Quaker Peace & Social Witness (QPSW) staff, gathered recently in Derbyshire for the department’s spring conference.
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…
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