Eighty-four Quakers gathered online for Meeting for Suffering (MfS) on 1 October, with just fifteen in Friends House due to a train strike.
The first main item focused on the ongoing review of Yearly Meeting, Yearly Meeting Gathering and MfS. Sarah Donaldson, clerk of the group appointed to conduct the review, said…
Friends heard what was later described as an ‘inspiring’ report from Elizabeth Allen, clerk of General Meeting for Scotland. ‘If you look at statistics, we’re old and our…
A Quaker has been imprisoned for breaking an injunction at the Kingsbury Oil Terminal as part of the Just Stop Oil (JSO) protests.
Quakers have joined other faith groups in calling for compassion and justice in the wake of the Metropolitan Police-related fatal shooting of Chris Kaba this month.
A group of US Friends has issued an ‘urgent call to action’ about what it sees as the undermining of Quaker testimonies in wider society.
Quakers are continuing to urge the government to drop its plans to deport asylum seekers to Rwanda.
More than sixty Friends issued a rousing call to action to ‘open ourselves to this pregnant sense of the present’ after attending a three-day gathering aimed at tackling the…
Quakers are honouring the 250th anniversary of John Woolman’s death with silent witness in the City of London.
Action must be taken to reverse ‘the decline in standards in public life’ if parliament and our democracy are not to be undermined, Quaker Ruth Cadbury told other MPs at a…
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