A Friends’ Meeting in the United States has reported two swastikas found spray-painted outside a Quaker cemetery in New Jersey.
A Welsh Quaker mother of two young children gave a moving reflection for the BBC on Sul y Mamau, Mother’s Day, focusing on the power of silence to help us listen to ourselves,…
Quaker peace work in the Spanish Civil War is explored in a new book by the author Maggie Brookes-Butt. The novel Acts of Love and War draws on research from Friends House Library…
Britain Yearly Meeting (BYM) has said it is dismayed by the government’s British Energy Security Strategy published earlier this month.
Edinburgh Friends are looking for charities to host theatre performances at their venue this summer during the Edinburgh Festival. The shift away from profit-making theatre groups…
Gillian Ashmore, a former recording clerk of Britain Yearly Meeting (BYM), spoke on radio last month about her experience of hosting refugees.
The Mount School in York, which is a Quaker Recognised Body, has hosted a military recruiter as part of its Careers Week.
Friends are being urged to continue lobbying against the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill, which has been going back and forth between the House of Commons and House of…
Britain Yearly Meeting (BYM) has set up a new department called Quaker Church Affairs.
The Tallinn Friends Group have said they want to expand the Alternative to Violence Project (AVP) seminars that they already run in Estonia to local Russians.
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