Friends in Scotland will link with Britain Yearly Meeting (BYM) in helping Quakers play a more effective advocacy role in the country.
Quakers in Britain have called for an immediate end to the use of force by all parties in Gaza. A statement, signed by Paul Parker, recording clerk of Britain Yearly…
David Urquhart, bishop of Birmingham, has issued a community challenge for national Inter Faith Week urging people of different faiths to build friendships and challenge…
Prisons Week 2012, which runs between 18 and 24 November, will be highlighting important issues of concern to prisoners in all parts of Britain.
The Catholic Church has endorsed the Living Wage ahead of the forthcoming Church of England debate on the subject.
Christian Aid has urged the government to help Pakistan boost its disastrously low tax revenues by breaking down global financial secrecy and helping the country get information…
A Scottish Quaker intends to introduce the Quaker way of worship to Addis Ababa in Ethiopia. Peter Cheer, a member of Perth Meeting East Scotland, who is currently on a…
Plans for a massive expansion of Colombia’s mining industry could have serious implications for human rights violations, environmental damage and lost tax revenues, a new report…
The distinguished Welsh Quaker poet Waldo Williams was the subject of a special Remembrance Day programme on BBC Radio Wales. The programme used extracts from a talk given…
The Friends Quarterly, sister publication of The Friend, has managed something of a journalistic ‘coup’ in featuring an article by Justin Welby in the current edition. …
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