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Meeting for Sufferings: Friends welcome Ukraine initiative
Friends at Meeting for Sufferings welcomed news of a Quaker initiative on Ukraine. The situation in the country was considered at the annual meeting of Friends World Committee for Consultation (FWCC) Europe and Middle East Section (EMES).
Quaker speaks truth to power
Quaker actor and director Mark Coleman and Glasgow Friends are marking next week’s Refugee Week with a production of Ariel Dorfman’s Speak Truth to Power. The play will be first workshopped and then performed on 21 June. Mark will direct the play and lead the workshop. ‘The...
Catholic pilgrims worship with Belfast Quakers
The Clonard Reconciliation Mission joined South Belfast Friends for a Meeting for Worship on Sunday 1 June. The group, from West Belfast’s Clonard Monastery, are known as the Unity Pilgrims and worship with a different religious congregation each Sunday. This was their second visit to South Belfast Meeting.
Former banker to speak at Adderbury
Former banker Jon Long will describe his journey into and out of the dark heart of addiction in a forthcoming talk at Adderbury Gathering 2014. Jon will also cover subjects such as ‘story-telling and relationships, military and financial systems thinking, synchronicity, addiction, recovery, redemption and the monetary system’.
New face at the Friend
Tara Craig has joined the Friend, as a part time journalist. She will be mainly responsible for writing news stories about the life, worship and activities of Quakers in Britain and is keen to receive information from Friends.
Jewish worship in York
York will again see regular Jewish services, almost forty years after its last synagogue closed – at Friargate Meeting House. The first Shabbat morning service will take place on Saturday 14 June, led by Liberal Judaism’s chief executive, rabbi Danny Rich. Subsequent services will be held on the second Saturday...
New Meeting house opens for worship
The new Kingston Quaker Centre in South West London will host its first Meeting for Worship at 10am on Sunday 15 June. The following Sunday, the Centre will hold a ‘friends and family day’. Beginning at 10am with a Meeting for Worship, this will continue until 4pm, with lunch, musical...
British Museum action continue
London-based Friends staged a third protest at the British Museum on Tuesday 3 June. A group of sixteen people held a silent Meeting for Worship in the building’s atrium as an act of witness in opposition to the role of BP as a corporate sponsor of the museum. ...
Prisoners need more help
More needs to be done to help prisoners, asserts a former Quaker prison chaplain in a new book. Confessions of a Prison Chaplain, by Mary Brown, was published last week and deals with her experience of the criminal justice system. ‘One in three prisoners have been in care...
Brighton Friends seek ideas for new initiative
Friends in Brighton are seeking ideas from other Quaker Meetings for an initiative that aims to bring together people who hold different views on the Palestine/Israel conflict. They intend to offer Brighton Meeting House as a place of ‘encounter and sharing’ for local people concerned with the situation.