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Meeting for Sufferings: Final report of Appeal Review Group
‘If we are listening to each other, we should be able to reach clarity,’ Beryl Milner told Meeting for Sufferings on 7 April. She is the convenor of the Appeal Review Group – set up in December 2016 to appraise possible amendments to the appeals procedures described in Quaker faith & practice sections 4.2...
Friends respond to Gaza
A statement on the ongoing conflict in Gaza has been released by Friends House calling on ‘the Israeli military to end their violent use of live gunfire on unarmed protesters, in clear violation of international law’.
Faith groups urge re-think on tax credit limit
One year after the two-child limit policy with regard to child tax credits was introduced, faith representatives, including Paul Parker, recording clerk of Britain Yearly Meeting, are urging the government to re-think it.
George Cadbury is ‘top Brummie’
George Cadbury has been voted Birmingham’s ‘top Brummie’ in a Twitter-based vote organised by the Birmingham St Mary’s hospice.
Housing initiative launched in Tunbridge Wells
Friends at Tunbridge Wells Meeting House in Kent opened the doors of its social housing project for young people last month.
Heritage boost for Pendle Hill
Pendle Hill Area Meeting is assisting in a partnership aimed at reconnecting local people with Pendle Hill, where George Fox had a vision of ‘a great people to be gathered’ in 1652.
Friends join CND Easter witness
Quakers from around the country were among those who gathered at the Aldermaston Atomic Weapons Establishment in Berkshire on Easter Sunday to mark sixty years since the first Aldermaston march.
United States tour for CO play
A Quaker playwright from Wanstead Meeting, Michael Mears, is to show his play This Evil Thing in Buffalo this week as part of a five-week tour of the United States. The one-man play, which was stage-designed by Winchmore Hill Quaker Mark Friend, is about Britain’s first world war conscientious...
Exeter Friends march for Europe
Quakers campaigning to stay in the European Union took part in the South West March and Rally for Europe in Exeter last month organised by Devon for Europe.
White poppies honour those killed in Yemen war
The not-for-profit organisation Independent Yemen Group has added white poppies to the Collateral Damage Project in honour of those killed in the war in Yemen and to mark the third anniversary of the conflict.