A Quaker-linked advice service for members of the armed forces has flagged concerns about a shift in the army’s focus to recruiting eighteen-year-old school leavers.
The Northern Friends Peace Board (NFPB) has highlighted what it called ‘the lack of progress’ at last month’s international nuclear weapons non-proliferation discussions.
Britain Yearly Meeting (BYM) has urged the government to re-sentence people who have been given indeterminate sentences.
A special version of the song ‘Every Time I Feel the Spirit’ has been published to celebrate the 2024 World Plenary.
A Suffolk Quaker is embarking on a walking and cycling trip, visiting twenty-six churches to raise funds for places of worship in the county.
The Anti-Boycott Bill ‘will prevent concerned citizens from using the few instruments they have to call attention to global injustice’, a Britain Yearly Meeting (BYM) staff…
Britain Yearly Meeting (BYM) staff joined others to hand in a petition at 10 Downing Street urging the prime minister to scrap the anti-boycott bill.
Friends were among a gathering to mark the 204th anniversary of the Peterloo Massacre last month. The event on 16 August marked the moment in 1819 when over 60,000 peaceful…
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