A two-day event, Health Through Peace, is taking place at Friends House on 13-14 November.
The Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust (JRCT) has issued a statement concerning its recent participation in a judicial review claim brought by the advocacy organisation Cage. The…
The idea that Christian, Muslim and Judaic extremism play equally important roles in destabilising Middle Eastern societies was explored at a recent conference.
The Blue Idol Meeting House in West Sussex has been taken off Historic England’s list of vulnerable historic buildings. The seventeenth century Meeting house had been on the…
Milton Keynes Friends recently held a public preview of the new film The Divide. The film looks at the growing gap between rich and poor, and its impact on society in Britain and…
A musical adaptation of Ian Serraillier’s much-loved children’s novel The Silver Sword has toured Britain. The novel tells the story of four Polish children’s struggles in…
Some sixty Friends from twenty Area Meetings gathered at Bull Street Meeting House in Birmingham on 24 October for the ‘Road Maps to Equality’ conference. This was the second…
Southern Marches and Mid Wales Friends have put together two declarations for speaking truth to power. The declarations were prompted by a growing concern about the direction in…
Friends World Committee for Consultation (FWCC) general secretary Gretchen Castle welcomed general secretaries of Christian communions to Friends House on 21 October.
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