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Canadian Friends support treaty rights
The Canadian Friends Service Committee (CFSC), with several partner organisations, have released an open letter exposing the Canadian Department of Justice’s quiet campaign to erode the constitutional and legal status of Aboriginal and Treaty rights in Canada.
Faith in conflict
Coventry Cathedral is hosting an ecumenical conference: ‘Faith in Conflict: Finding better ways to handle conflict in the church’.
Priory Rooms plug into future
Friends at Bull Street Meeting House in Birmingham are getting into gear for a low carbon future.
Centenary celebrations
Northern Friends Peace Board (NFPB) marked the centenary of its formation with a party at the newly refurbished Manchester Meeting House on 2 February.
Anti-war campaigners win landmark case
Anti-war campaigners have just won a landmark case at the Central London County Court after ten years. In March 2003 approximately 159 protestors, including some Quakers, set out from Euston for the Fairford military aerodrome to protest against the war in Iraq. They were stopped by the police three miles from...
Meeting for Sufferings: Citizen’s Income
Friends were encouraged, in the Meeting for Sufferings held at Woodbrooke on 3 February, to take an interest in the subject of a Citizen’s Income.
Meeting for Sufferings: BYM 2013
Britain Yearly Meeting 2013 will, it was announced at Meeting for Sufferings, be held from 24 to 27 May at Friends House. Chris Skidmore, the nominated clerk, outlined the theme, which continues last year’s exploration of what it means to be a Quaker. ‘If there is a theme,’ he said, ‘it...
Meeting for Sufferings: Gathering by the lake
Change was the order of the day at the first Meeting for Sufferings in 2013. A rare residential weekend of Meeting for Sufferings was held at the Woodbrooke Quaker Study Centre in Birmingham. It was the first time in the Centre’s one-110-year history it had hosted the event. Some...
Meeting for Sufferings: Kabarak Call
The Kabarak Call for Peace and Ecojustice, which was approved at the Sixth World Conference of Friends at Kabarak in Kenya in 2012, was introduced by Barbara Windle on Saturday morning. She reminded Friends that a concern for the earth and stewardship of our scarce resources ‘runs through’ the history...
Meeting for Sufferings: Welfare Reform
The damaging effect that proposed changes to the benefit system will have on low-income working and non-working people was brought to the attention of Meeting for Sufferings on Sunday morning. A minute from Wirral and Chester Area Meeting highlighted the effect of the cuts on the poor and vulnerable...