Quakers will take part in a meeting of the highest governing body of the World Council of Churches (WCC) this month in Karlsruhe, Germany.
Britain Yearly Meeting (BYM) has signed a joint letter calling on world leaders to phase out nuclear weapons.
Britain Yearly Meeting (BYM) has joined calls for the UK government to take urgent action to end the blockade of Gaza.
The Quaker actor and playwright Michael Mears has won an award for his play based on the dropping of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima.
Quakers in Stratford-upon-Avon have welcomed a Ukrainian family to the warden’s flat at their Meeting house. The accommodation became vacant in April following the death of the…
The Quaker study centre Woodbrooke has issued a statement signalling ‘a period of significant change’. Describing how ‘the pandemic has changed Woodbrooke irrevocably’, the…
Cotteridge Quakers have highlighted the ‘very urgent needs’ of foodbanks, saying that at their service there is ‘more food going out than coming in’.
A peace education teaching pack, designed and produced by Britain Yearly Meeting, has been chosen by teachers for a major award.
As the Conservative leadership race heats up, Quakers have been sharing assessments on how the final two candidates – Rishi Sunak and Liz Truss – stand on defence and climate…
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