A campaigning Christian charity has encouraged Christians to do no business with tax-dodging corporations, such as Amazon and Starbucks, for the duration of Lent.
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…
Coventry Cathedral is hosting an ecumenical conference: ‘Faith in Conflict: Finding better ways to handle conflict in the church’.
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,…
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.
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…
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…
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…
Friends at Meeting for Sufferings were urged to highlight, in different ways, the increasing use of drones (unmanned aerial vehicles or UAVs) by the military. The military…
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