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Dundee Meeting to go ‘back home’
Dundee Meeting has decided to return to its five-storey Meeting house after a two and a half year process of discernment.
Quakers celebrate Stansted Fifteen news
Quakers flocked to Chelmsford Crown Court last week to hear news that the Stansted Fifteen group of protestors, including one Quaker, had received suspended sentences or community orders and not prison sentences.
Southern Marches’ anti slavery donation
Canon Noel Beattie, founder of the Lifting the Stone Coalition/Anti-Slavery Network in the Marches, has thanked Southern Marches Area Meeting for what he describes as their ‘generous donation’ to the group’s work against slavery. He said: ‘This donation has now allowed us to run the first tranche of...
QCEA launches peace education report
The Quaker Council for European Affairs (QCEA) has launched a new report on peace education arguing for the EU to adopt a ‘multi-layered’ approach. It calls for a ‘cohesive, coordinated strategy for peace education as a peacebuilding and conflict prevention tool’ to be built into policies and programmes.
New Quaker Meeting in Florence
A forty-one-year-old Friend has started a Quaker group in Florence, Italy after ‘craving’ the silence of a Meeting.
Quaker Centre Gathering in Sheffield
Thirty-three Friends gathered at Sheffield Meeting House last month for the annual two-day Quaker Centre Gathering.
BYM urges action on immigration bill
Britain Yearly Meeting is urging action against proposed bills around immigration and climate change. Suki Ferguson, Quaker Peace & Social Witness communications coordinator, said: ‘We are working hard to influence government decision makers as they shape key post-Brexit policies around immigration and climate change.
Meeting for Sufferings: Record of all Friends who died in the first world war
Britain Yearly Meeting (BYM) has committed itself to creating a record of Quakers who died in the first world war, after rousing ministry at Meeting for Sufferings on 2 February. The record of the, at least, 265 Friends who died in the war will be kept at Friends House, London. It will...
Meeting for Sufferings: Court and Prison Register
Meeting for Sufferings made an entry about three Friends on the Court and Prison Register, which records Friends appearing before the courts or imprisoned for matters of conscience.
Meeting for Sufferings: Terms of Reference for two new groups approved
Two new Meeting for Sufferings groups had their Terms of Reference approved by representatives at Sufferings.