22nd February 2013

Christian lobby group targets tax justice during Lent

by The Friend Newsdesk

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.

22nd February 2013

Canadian Friends support treaty rights

by The Friend Newsdesk

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…

22nd February 2013

Faith in conflict

by The Friend Newsdesk

Coventry Cathedral is hosting an ecumenical conference: ‘Faith in Conflict: Finding better ways to handle conflict in the church’.

Priory Rooms plug into future
15th February 2013

Priory Rooms plug into future

by The Friend Newsdesk
Centenary celebrations
15th February 2013

Centenary celebrations

by The Friend Newsdesk
15th February 2013

Anti-war campaigners win landmark case

by The Friend Newsdesk

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,…

15th February 2013

Meeting for Sufferings: Citizen’s Income

by The Friend Newsdesk

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.

15th February 2013

Meeting for Sufferings: BYM 2013

by The Friend Newsdesk

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…

Meeting for Sufferings: Gathering by the lake
8th February 2013

Meeting for Sufferings: Gathering by the lake

by Ian Kirk-Smith
8th February 2013

Meeting for Sufferings: Kabarak Call

by Ian Kirk-Smith

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…

8th February 2013

Meeting for Sufferings: Welfare Reform

by Ian Kirk-Smith

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…

8th February 2013

Meeting for Sufferings: Drones

by Ian Kirk-Smith

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…