This year the twentieth anniversary of Litchfield Local Meeting coincides with International Conscientious Objectors Day. Local Friends are recognising both events with activities…
Quakers around the country are to launch a four-year project to tell the suppressed stories of world war one conscientious objectors on May 15, International Conscientious…
The idea of acting on principle rather than consequence was explored by Ian Kirk-Smith in this year’s public lecture at Ireland Yearly Meeting held at The King’s Hospital…
An online petition has been launch by a collective of concerned groups asking for the closure of the Eurosatory arms fair. The collective ‘No Eurosatory 2014’ includes…
The Oxford Research Group have re-launched its blog Sustainable.Security.org. The blog was initiated to create a space to develop a better understanding of modern insecurity…
French Quakers will again be holding a peace witness at the Eurosatory arms fair on the outskirts of Paris this June. The fair, held this year between 16 and 20 June, is the…
Same sex Quaker weddings will, henceforth, be registered as religious marriages and no civil partnership option will be offered, it was decided at Meeting for Sufferings (MfS) on…
The growing militarisation of British society in recent years has been highlighted in a new report published by Quaker Peace & Social Witness (QPSW). Sam Walton, who…
Friends in Wanstead are in the news with their campaign that urges people to pay an extra penny per pound in tax to protect the most vulnerable from the effects of austerity cuts.
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