Leaveners, the Quaker arts group, has worked with Dudley Museum & Art Gallery to bring together works of art that give historical insight into the lives of Black Country…
A member of Bournemouth Coastal Area Meeting will take a statement to the UN General Assembly Special Session (UNGASS) on the global drug problem.
A groundbreaking conference took place at the Vatican this week, when eighty delegates gathered to review the Catholic teaching on peacemaking.
Some eighty people, among them ten members of Quaker Peace & Social Witness (QPSW) staff, gathered recently in Derbyshire for the department’s spring conference.
Some of the risks now faced by the Religious Society of Friends in Britain were highlighted at Meeting for Sufferings held at Friends House, London, on Saturday 2 April. Ingrid…
Britain Yearly Meeting is moving through a three-year arc, ‘Living out our faith’, Meeting for Sufferings clerk Ethel Livermore explained in the papers. At Yearly Meeting 2015,…
A number of minutes from Area Meetings were brought to Sufferings. A concern over the use of the phrase ‘Quakers in Britain’ came from Cambridgeshire Area Meeting. A response…
Anne Bennett, clerk of the Quaker World Relations Committee (QWRC), spoke to its first annual report.
Meeting for Sufferings clerk Ethel Livermore described testing concerns as ‘something that a lot of Friends struggle with’. Her thoughts were echoed by Friends, one of whom…
Each year, Britain Yearly Meeting (BYM) sends representatives to other Yearly Meetings in Europe.
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