The Quaker charitable trust Living Witness has organised a summer gathering aimed at unifying action on the climate crisis. The ‘All Change! Making paths on shifting ground’…
A new report from Britain Yearly Meeting (BYM) shines a light on how peace education in schools can tackle problems ranging from mental health challenges to violence.
A Quaker has been imprisoned on remand for breaking a protest injunction.
A US Quaker Meeting has said that it plans to give $500,000 as reparations to black neighbours over the next decade.
Quakers have been asked if they can sponsor a seventeen-year-old boy from Ukraine. A trusteee of the Friend, Peter Kennedy from Aberdeen Meeting, put out the call in the Edinburgh…
Friends came together last month to share ideas on how Quakers can celebrate George Fox’s 400th birthday in 2024. The co-founder of Quakerism was born in July 1624 in…
Quakers have said that the government is trying to silence the ethical investment movement with a controversial ‘anti-boycott bill’.
Britain Yearly Meeting (BYM) has said it is ‘devastated’ that the House of Lords has voted through the final measures of the controversial Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts…
Quakers have slammed government plans to send refugees to Rwanda. The proposals have also been heavily criticised by Justin Welby, the archbishop of Canterbury, who called them…
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