13th June 2014

Meeting for Sufferings: Review group agreed for listed informal groups

by Ian Kirk-Smith

Meeting for Sufferings (MfS) agreed to recommend the setting up of a small short term review group to consider the status of informal groups within Quakers in Britain. …

13th June 2014

Meeting for Sufferings: Friends welcome Ukraine initiative

by Ian Kirk-Smith

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…

13th June 2014

Quaker speaks truth to power

by Tara Craig

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…

13th June 2014

Catholic pilgrims worship with Belfast Quakers

by Tara Craig

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…

Former banker to speak at Adderbury
13th June 2014

Former banker to speak at Adderbury

by Tara Craig
New face at the Friend
13th June 2014

New face at the Friend

by The Friend Newsdesk
6th June 2014

Jewish worship in York

by Tara Craig

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…

New Meeting house opens for worship
6th June 2014

New Meeting house opens for worship

by Tara Craig
6th June 2014

British Museum action continue

by Tara Craig

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…

6th June 2014

Prisoners need more help

by Tara Craig

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…

6th June 2014

Brighton Friends seek ideas for new initiative

by Tara Craig

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…

6th June 2014

New Rowntree biography

by Tara Craig

A new biography of the Victorian philanthropist, educationalist and social reformer Joseph Rowntree is to be published in the autumn.