Sunday morning started with Friends considering a minute from Surrey & Hampshire Border Area Meeting (AM) on modern day slavery.
Next on the agenda was a letter of concern from Doncaster Friends calling on church leaders to show support for the city’s large Sudanese community, and Sudan as a whole.
Imprisonment for Public Protection (IPP) sentences were also considered, with a minute from Central England AM. A representative from the Community Justice Group said that, with…
Two Irish nationals who monitor the human rights situation in Palestine, in a programme managed by Quakers in Britain, have been evacuated.
Quakers have spoken out about the conditions of prisoners, highlighted in a major newspaper investigation last month.
Nine rapes were reported to the police at Harrogate’s Army Foundation College last year, a Freedom of Information (FOI) request has shown.
Some Area Meetings (AMs) have been calling for Quakers in Britain to support the campaign to make Ecocide an international crime. On Saturday evening, Mike Coote, co-clerk of…
Friends also heard from the group appointed to review Yearly Meeting (YM), Yearly Meeting Gathering (YMG) and Meeting for Sufferings (MfS). Keith Walton, a member of the review…
Later, Friends heard about the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between the organisations together comprising the Religious Society of Friends in Britain, which amounts to more…
Northern Friends Peace Board (NFPB) has said it is looking at ways to share the outcome of the Alternative Security Review (ASR), a three-year project to create public dialogue in…
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