Friends have welcomed the London mayor’s statement that the Defence and Security Equipment International (DSEI) arms fair should not return to London.
More than sixty interfaith pilgrims came together in King’s Lynn last month to end their march across Norfolk highlighting the need for action on climate change.
Britain Yearly Meeting (BYM) has welcomed recommendations set out in a major report into child protection in religious organisations and settings.
The founder of the Big Issue Group John Bird will feature in the third Quaker Question Time.
Quakers were among those marking the fortieth anniversary of the Greenham Women’s Peace Camp this week.
Bristol Quakers are starting a new online course for promoting peace in schools following a renewed interest in the programme since the pandemic.
The Quaker astrophysicist Jocelyn Bell Burnell has become the second woman to win the Copley Medal for her work on the discovery of pulsars.
Friends have been submitting ‘messages from the heart’ to feature on a large Quaker banner going to the UN Conference of the Parties (COP26) in November.
Britain Yearly Meeting has urged the UK government to recognise responsibility for Afghan refugees. ‘The 20-year NATO intervention in Afghanistan did not bring about a peaceful…
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