Britain Yearly Meeting (BYM) welcomed the UK government’s ‘long overdue’ recognition of the State of Palestine last month, but said it does nothing to ‘absolve the UK of…
Paris and Ile de France Quakers were given eleventh-hour permission to witness for peace in the French capital last month.
One hundred members of the Climate Choir came together for a ‘flashmob’ performance in London to call on the government to reject the Rosebank oilfield.
Southampton Quakers displayed an exhibition about transatlantic chattel slavery for a Heritage Open Day.
The parents of Shadi Khoury, a former student from Friends Ramallah School in the West Bank, have asked for prayers, support and advocacy after their son was convicted in an…
Quakers in London gathered last weekend to call on polluters to pay.
The family archives of a leading Quaker abolitionist have been donated to the Gloucester Heritage Hub. Samuel Bowly was also a leader in the temperance movement and is portrayed in…
Wandsworth Quakers invited Friends from across London to offer artworks depicting an aspect of their Quaker experience for an art exhibition.
Britain Yearly Meeting (BYM) has been refused permission to give evidence in a legal challenge to the government’s proscription of Palestine Action (PA) as a terrorist group.
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