The issue of modern day slavery has been raised, in a dramatic form, at Mansfield’s Meeting house. The Plain Quaker theatre project recently staged an updated version of their…
Online video chat technology has allowed two Quaker schools to join together for the first time in a special Meeting for Worship. Sidcot School in Somerset and Sibford School in…
The Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) in Norway have written to new NATO secretary general Jens Stoltenberg, urging his organisation to play a stronger role in peace building.…
Terms of reference for a new Britain Yearly Meeting (BYM) Sustainability Group were brought to Meeting for Sufferings last week. In June the Minute 36 Group had recommended that a…
A motion to recognise Palestine as a state was backed by 274 votes to 12 in the House of Commons on Monday 13 October. The motion, put forward by Labour MP Grahame Morris, urged…
The Large Meeting House at Friends House hosted its first post-refurbishment event, for Birkbeck College, on 30 September.
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