Britain Yearly Meeting (BYM) has welcomed a new agreement aimed at improving how government works with faith groups, charities and community organisations.
The seventeenth-century Quaker burial ground at North Walsham has been damaged and turned into a makeshift campsite.
The RAF base at Lakenheath is preparing to receive nuclear weapons, according to the Lakenheath Alliance for Peace (LAP).
Three Quaker organisations have endorsed a call to action on climate, from the Interfaith Liaison Committee (ILC) to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).
A Quaker in Ukraine has told the BBC of his difficulties in refusing to join the country’s army.
The Quaker Tapestry Museum in Kendal has been awarded Cumbria Tourism’s ‘Small Visitor Attraction of the Year’.
Two Friends will appear at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe next month, in a three-week ‘explosion of creative energy from around the globe’.
A new stone monument remembering Quakers has been unveiled next to a main road in St Austell, Cornwall.
One of the oldest Quaker burial grounds has been recognised for its historic importance.
A documentary about the World Plenary Meeting (WPM) 2024 will be launched next month, said Friends World Committee for Consultation (FWCC) last week.
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