Friends have been upholding Quakers and others living through the war in Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).
Britain Yearly Meeting (BYM) has joined a new global initiative, the Green Investment Declaration.
Quakers heard from a Friend with experience of being in Palestine at a Northern Friends Peace Board (NFPB) event this month.
The pacifist playwright Michael Mears is taking one of his plays to the US – inspired by an encounter at Friends House.
Britain Yearly Meeting (BYM) has repeated its serious concern about harsh sentences handed down to climate protesters.
The UK government failed again to send a British representative to a nuclear disarmament conference at the United Nations this month.
Bristol Area Meeting (AM) has published a leaflet outlining local Quakers’ complicity in transatlantic chattel slavery.
Wanstead Friends heard from a volunteer for the Ecumenical Accompaniment Programme in Palestine and Israel (EAPPI) this month, when Tanya Williams, of Richmond Meeting, described…
Representation at ‘continuing’ Yearly Meeting The afternoon began with Siobhán Haire, deputy recording clerk for Britain Yearly Meeting (BYM), introducing Sarah Donaldson, who…
Friends have joined a campaign to urge cathedrals to ditch banks that support fossil fuels.
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