Quakers in London remain concerned about the plight of homeless people in the city following confusion over a potential council decision. A housing charity has predicted that…
A York Quaker has turned the tables on her local council to defend disabled people. City of York Council was obliged to debate the impact of its cuts programme last week after Ceri…
British Quakers have recommended a boycott of goods produced by Israeli settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territories. The decision was made after lengthy discussion and…
Two conscientious objectors have appeared before military courts in the last week.
Representatives of Britain’s Quakers have written to the prime minister to express disagreement with his decision to bomb Libya.
Hot air is helping to produce ground coffee in the Friend editorial offices in London.
An attender at Coventry Meeting is prepared to go to prison for refusing to complete the census.
On Wednesday 23 March a report on the five-year project ‘Visionaries for a just and peaceful world’ was launched at an event in the Royal Institute of British Architecture in…
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