On 19 July a Ten Minute Rule Bill arguing for the extension of the conscientious objection law into the tax system was read in parliament. The second reading will be 2 December.
At its recent annual general meeting (AGM), the Quaker Asylum and Refugee Network (QARN) discussed its current aims in relation to its ten-year-old constitution.
A peace pole put up by Stourbridge Friends and Churches Together in Stourbridge just two months ago has been destroyed.
A United States senate candidate who is a Quaker has received online death threats because she chose not to take the pledge of allegiance.
The General Assembly of the United Reformed Church (URC) has voted in favour of allowing its local churches to conduct and register marriages for same sex couples.
The Woodbrooke Quaker Study Centre in Birmingham has joined with Lancaster University and online learning provider FutureLearn to offer a free online course on early Quakers.
Friends Journal has been given an ‘Award of Excellence’ in the ‘Best in Class’ category for denominational/special interest magazines by the Associated Church Press.
A sampler stitched by an Irish Quaker more than two centuries ago has found its way ‘home’ from Australia.
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