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Rwandan Friends’ appeal success
Friends World Committee for Consultation (FWCC) has closed the successful campaign to help Rwanda Yearly Meeting address an urgent need to install lightning rods on thirty-five buildings in Rwanda Yearly Meeting.
Peace protestors make West Midlands ‘weapons inspection’
London Quaker Jo Frew was one of ‘The People’s Weapons Inspectors’ – Christian peace protestors who blocked the gates of arms manufacturer Roxel in the West Midlands on 7 April.
Churches Together Birmingham survey
Quakers in Birmingham have been invited to take part in a survey to help find out how Birmingham Churches Together is working.
Meeting for Sufferings: The Canterbury Commitment: where do Friends go now?
A key item in the morning session of Meeting for Sufferings on Saturday 7 April was the report of the group appointed to review the work of the Britain Yearly Meeting Sustainability Group (BYMSG). The purpose of the BYMSG, which was set up as a working group of Meeting for Sufferings...
Meeting for Sufferings: Response to the ‘post-truth world’
A minute from Southern Marches Area Meeting (AM) on ‘‘‘Post-truth world” – What can we do?’ was heard at Meeting for Sufferings on 7 April at Friends House in London.
Meeting for Sufferings: Letter of Greeting to Ireland Yearly Meeting
A letter to Ireland Yearly Meeting 2018, which meets in Limerick on 18-22 July, was agreed at Meeting for Sufferings.
Meeting for Sufferings: Court and prison register
Meeting for Sufferings agreed to add to the court and prison register the names of three Friends whose witness was described on 7 April.
Meeting for Sufferings: news in brief
Friends at Meeting for Sufferings agreed to register Quaker Bolivia Link as an external group for five years. Registration is to be reviewed by April 2023. It is the latest group to be registered as a Quaker Recognised Body.
Meeting for Sufferings: Appeals, sustainability and truth
Friends travelled from all parts of Britain to Friends House on Saturday 7 April for Meeting for Sufferings with appeal processes, sustainability, truth and integrity among the concerns addressed.
Meeting for Sufferings: Britain Yearly Meeting trustees
Ingrid Greenhow, clerk of Britain Yearly Meeting (BYM) trustees, began the report of the most recent meeting of BYM trustees on an upbeat note.