A seventy-year-old Quaker from West Yorkshire has refused to pay a fine given to her for participating in a peaceful protest at an arms fair in London in September 2013.
Moscow Monthly Meeting have asked Quakers worldwide to pray and work with them for peace in Ukraine. Friends in Moscow recently met to discuss the situation in Ukraine, and…
Four works by the artist James Turrell are on display at a leading London gallery until early April. The four frosted-glass screens, animated by sophisticated displays of…
The first online postgraduate courses in Quakerism have been launched by the Woodbrooke Centre for Postgraduate Quaker Studies in Birmingham. The Centre, in conjunction with…
Winchmore Hill Quakers have announced that work will begin this spring on renovations to their Grade II listed Meeting house. The news that work will start soon marks a…
The forthcoming referendum on Scottish independence will be raised at next month’s General Meeting of Friends in Scotland. ‘One of the challenges in this debate and…
Diana Francis, the peace activist and conflict transformation expert, will be the 2015 Swarthmore lecturer, the Woodbrooke Quaker Study Centre has announced.
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