In his Easter message, the president of the Methodist Conference challenged the myth that poverty is the fault of the poor.
Michael Bartlet, parliamentary liason secretary for Quakers in Britain, is to leave Friends House at the end of April. Michael has given seventeen years service in this…
Friends at the Quaker United Nations Office (QUNO) in Geneva are celebrating a significant breakthrough over a long-standing concern. The UN has announced that in September,…
The Quaker Tapestry moved to its temporary home in The Elephant Yard, Kendal, on Monday, 25 March. The Quaker attraction was forced to leave its usual location while urgent…
Four out of five British adults believe in the power of prayer, according to a new ICM survey in the run-up to Easter. Three in every ten people, asked what they would pray…
The Joseph Rowntree Foundation (JRF) has embarked on an ambitious £512,000 project to highlight the impact of public spending cuts and government policy changes on poor people…
The closing date for Quaker nominations for the 2014 Nobel Peace Prize is 1 May. In 1947 the Prize was awarded to Quakers worldwide for the work they had done, particularly…
The executive director of Scientists for Global Responsibility (SGR) has criticised the recent four-day ‘Big Bang’ science and engineering fair in London for its weak…
The latest novel by award-winning writer Tracy Chevalier is set in a Quaker settlement in Ohio in the mid-1850s. Tracy Chevalier grew up attending Quaker summer camps and…
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