Hlekweni Friends Rural Service Centre (near Bulawayo, Zimbabwe) has closed. The centre was founded forty-seven years ago, but is no longer financially sustainable. Thousands of…
The white feather diaries website will go live on 4 August at Yearly Meeting Gathering (YMG) 2014 in Bath. Quaker writer and broadcaster Geoffrey Durham will read extracts from the…
Many Quaker couples in Britain have reacted with disappointment to the news that the conversion of civil partnerships into marriage will not involve a marriage ceremony. The…
Canadian Friends Service Committee (CFSC) last month congratulated the Tsilhqot’in people on an historic victory for the rights of indigenous peoples. Following a campaign…
Quakers around the world are mourning the death of a young activist killed in Gaza on 20 July. Abdullah Mansour Abu Amara was a member of the American Friends Service Committee…
Three hundred and fifty-six years after a Quaker was arrested in Chichester Cathedral for arguing with a priest and then imprisoned, Friends were invited back to the building to…
Amid escalating violence in Gaza, Quakers in Britain have written this ‘open letter’ to William Hague, the foreign secretary. ‘Quakers in Britain are deeply concerned by the…
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