Five suggested amendments to the recent Immigration Bill, which were backed by Britain Yearly Meeting (BYM) and the Quaker Asylum and Refugee Network (QARN), were rejected in the…
Two Friends who made significant and pioneering contributions to peacekeeping and conflict resolution in Britain and Northern Ireland have died.
American Friends held a silent vigil in April to highlight the suffering of United States army veterans dealing with mental health issues while incarcerated.
Over 1.5 million Irish Quaker records are now available online. This is the first phase of a major project to digitise all surviving Quaker records in Ireland.
Quaker Values in Education (QVinE) launches a collection of personal reflections at their conference in Friends House on 30 April.
A group of Britain Yearly Meeting employees has written to the Treasury to conscientiously object to their taxes being used ‘in war, for war, or for the preparation for war’.
Diane Randall, executive secretary of the Friends Committee on National Legislation (FCNL) in the United States, gave the keynote address at the Quaker World Relations Committee…
Friends from Inverness Local Meeting are taking part in a silent, women-only vigil on Saturday 30 April. They are among the members of ‘Women in Black’ who meet in Inverness…
Dying Matters Awareness Week 2016 will take place from 9 to 15 May, its organisers have announced.
Trident was top of the agenda at a recent workshop organised by the Northern Friends Peace Board (NFPB) at Swarthmoor Hall, Cumbria. Eighteen people attended the event, which was…
More people were given the death penalty in 2015 than at any point in the last quarter century, according to a new report from Amnesty International on capital punishment.
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