Trustees of the Themba Trust UK met recently and made the decision to dissolve the UK charity. Themba in South Africa will be ten years old in February next year and…
The morning of 10 August brought phone calls from anxious friends in India asking ‘How are you?’ Are you all right?’ One caller is a Tibetan woman in Dharamsala. Once she…
The decision to change the composition and size of Meeting for Sufferings (MfS) was one of the more significant ones made at Yearly Meeting Gathering. The session, on…
British Quakers have committed themselves to a statement describing the world’s economic system as unjust. The description appeared in a minute of Britain Yearly Meeting (BYM)…
British Friends have affirmed their commitment to same-sex marriage with the approval of a revised chapter in Quaker faith & practice. But uncertainty over changes to the law…
A US Quaker activist has used a speaking tour of Britain to back a new campaign challenging military influence in British schools. Oskar Castro, who previously worked for the…
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