In Session Two, entitled Faith: Learning, waiting, changing, ministry was to be called by elders, to allow the clerks to concentrate elsewhere. Siobhán Haire read Qfp 26.70:…
In Session Four, Friends received and considered a report of the work of BYM trustees. After a reading from the Testimony to the Gace of God as shown in the life of Lea Adonis…
Appropriately, after the tough last session, Session Five looked at Action: Learning uncomfortable lessons and taking forward our witness. With elders again calling for ministry,…
Opening the final Session Seven, Siobhán Haire offered some reflections of her own. ‘I feel we’ve made progress, it feels tangible… I have sat at this table and at a desk in…
A Quaker imprisoned on remand for breaking a protest injunction was released last week.
Friends in the York area have requested more events to showcase the Quaker heritage of the mental health institute The Retreat.
Quakers gathered this week to discuss concerns about Europe’s new defence strategy, which includes increased spending.
Offering asylum to Russian pacifists will help halt the war in Ukraine, a leading pacifist group has said.
The Quaker-supported charity Freedom from Torture has raised £7,500 auctioning the work of the the late Iraqi artist Ausama al Khalil. The designer and painter was a survivor of…
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