Extracts from the epistle of the Friends World Committee for Consulation World Plenary held in Pisac, Peru, were read by the clerk of Meeting for Sufferings, Ethel Livermore.
Britain Yearly Meeting has given its support to two major Stop Trident events to be held later this month.
Iona Abbey, one of the oldest and most sacred religious places in all of western Europe, is to be the venue for a workshop run by Quakers in early April.
Friends House will play host to a conference on housing on Saturday 20 February.
Quakers will attend a demonstration outside Willesden Magisrates’ Court on Wednesday 24 February in support of Sam Sender, of Ealing Meeting, who is being sentenced that day.
A special event took place at the Friends Meeting House in Skipton, North Yorkshire, on 27 January to remember the International Congress of Women that was held in The Hague in…
The role played by Friends in influencing the Military Service Act of 1916 was featured in the BBC Radio 4 Sunday programme on 24 January.
The Prisons’ Week service recorded in the chapel of HMP Long Larton Prison in Worcestershire that was postponed due to the Paris bombing in November will be broadcast on BBC…
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