Quakers witnessed for peace last weekend as the annual Armed Forces Day (AFD) took place. Marketed as ‘family-friendly fun’, the day is really ‘a desperate recruitment drive…
Rory Pilgrim, an artist with Quaker links, has been nominated for the Turner Prize 2023.
A new plaque for George Fox was unveiled last week in Fenny Drayton, the Quaker founder’s birthplace.
Friends across the UK celebrated Pride Month this year by joining marches and holding talks. Helen Carter-Shaw, from Canterbury Meeting, told the Friend that people from the LGBTQ+…
The Central European Gathering (CEG) made history last month when it became a Yearly Meeting (YM). The decision was made at the twenty-sixth CEG in May in Gdansk, Poland.
Britain Yearly Meeting joined forty-eight organisations in calling on peers to reject ‘extreme and chilling’ government measures.
Quakers have welcomed calls from United Nations (UN) child rights experts for the UK to stop recruiting children into the armed forces.
Almost 500 Quakers from across Britain are already booked to attend the extra Yearly Meeting (YM) session on 1 July, online and in person, at Friends House.
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