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Edinburgh Friends address food poverty
Edinburgh Quakers have said that a local foodbank where many Friends volunteer is struggling with donations for the first time.
Friends resist petroleum bill
Friends have backed warnings that the government’s oil and gas bill threatens to undermine COP28 commitments.
Scottish children’s bill gets royal assent
The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC) Bill officially received royal assent in Scotland last week. The bill will come into force on 16 July 2024.
‘Storm Jocelyn’ named after Quaker
The bad weather that hit UK shores last week was named ‘Storm Jocelyn’ in honour of Quaker Jocelyn Bell Burnell.
Novelist speaks on Quaker aid in Spanish civil war
The novelist Maggie Brookes discussed her new book about Quaker aid in the Spanish civil war in Friends House last week.
Quakers in court for DSEI witness
Eight Friends appeared in court last week for their witness at the Defence and Security Equipment International (DSEI) arms fair in London last September.
BYM condemns UK/ US airstrikes in Yemen
Quakers have called on the UK government to use peaceful means to resolve conflicts in the Middle East, following the attacks on Houthi targets in Yemen.
‘Emotional tasks’ crucial for climate success, says Quaker
The social aspects of sustainability are crucial to progress in tackling climate change, a Quaker professor said last month. Yet around ninety per cent of funding – ‘certainly at the EU level’ – goes towards technological projects, not social ones, said Falmouth Friend Rosie Robison, in her inaugural professorial lecture.
Quakers co-create walking peace vigil
Friends joined a thousand people on a ‘Peace is Every Step’ walking silent prayer and vigil in London last weekend.
Gaza war emissions has ‘huge climate cost’
Britain Yearly Meeting (BYM)’s peace and disarmament team has highlighted a study showing that the first months of the conflict in Gaza produced more planet-warming gases than twenty climate-vulnerable nations do in a year. ‘One of the lesser talked about calamities of the terrible war in Gaza and one...