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World Quaker Day website relaunched
This year’s World Quaker Day is gearing up with the relaunch of the Friends World Committee for Consultation (FWCC) website. The fifth annual day of international Quaker celebration on 7 October is on the theme ‘Crossing Cultures, Sharing Stories’.
QPSW prepare for Armistice Day 2018
Quaker Peace & Social Witness (QPSW) are working on ‘Remembrance for Peace’ events in preparation for Armistice Day 2018, which is on Sunday 11 November.
World Service’s programme on world war one COs
THE BBC World Service broadcast a programme this month about the history of conscientious objectors (COs) in the first world war. WW1: Britain’s Conscientious Objectors is based on actual accounts from COs, taken from 1960s’ BBC archives, and was aired as part of the BBC’s History Hour.
Luton Meeting House part of ‘Peace Walk’
Luton Friends are to open up their Meeting house as part of the route for the annual Luton ‘Peace Walk’, that will take place on 22 September.
Minehead Friends’ support for Syrian refugees
Several Minehead Friends are involved in the provision of hospitality to Syrian refugees in Taunton, Somerset. Home stays for a weekend or longer, as well as days out, have been organised.
Women highlighted in Maldon exhibition
Maldon Quakers in Essex are putting on an exhibition about the history of the Religious Society of Friends with particular emphasis on Quaker women for the town’s heritage weekend next month.
‘Putting the protest back in Protestant’ at Greenbelt Festival
Conversations about the call of protest as a form of witness and how God-words can get in the way when sharing experiences of the divine were key themes in the Quaker presence at the Greenbelt Festival last weekend.
Day in the sun at Harvington Hall for refugee families
Friends from Bewdley in Worcestershire and Syrian refugees visited Harvington Hall near Kidderminster on 16 August.
Friends rally behind hunger striker
Jill Gibbon, the Quaker artist who draws what she sees at arms trade events, has sent a postcard in solidarity with Ali Mushaima, the hunger striker outside the Bahrain embassy in London protesting in order to try to save his father Hassan Mushaima, a prisoner of conscience in Bahrain. Ali...
Letter to end ‘hostile environment’
Paul Parker, recording clerk of Britain Yearly Meeting, has joined twenty faith representatives in signing a letter calling on the UK government to end the ‘hostile environment’ against immigrants.