Britain Yearly Meeting (BYM) has welcomed a new general secretary of Churches Together in England (CTE). Mike Royal, a pentecostal bishop, will take up the position in March 2022…
Brighton Friends attended a council hearing last week about a new restaurant opening next to its Meeting house.
Timmon Wallis, the new director of Quaker Council for European Affairs (QCEA), has left his post before completing the probationary period.
The BBC has confirmed that its presenters can wear white poppies on television in the run-up to Remembrance Sunday. Presenters may wear remembrance poppies ‘of any colour’…
A writer who is researching paranormal activity is interested in Central Edinburgh Meeting House because of its alleged association with the Scottish soldier Thomas Weir. The…
Quakers joined the crowds in Glasgow this week to stand witness at the twenty-sixth UN Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP26). While over 100 world leaders gathered at…
Britain Yearly Meeting (BYM) has urged Friends to join the Global Day of Action for Climate Justice on 6 November to push for ‘just solutions to the climate crisis’.
Britain Yearly Meeting (BYM) has joined other humanitarian and faith organisations in condemning the Israeli government’s decision to declare six Palestinian civil society groups…
Cumberland Area Meeting has been forced to change banks after its regular building society refused to provide it with online banking facilities.
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