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Peacemakers branch out in new decade
Friends visiting the Quaker Meeting House in Bull Street, Birmingham, can enjoy seeing the creative results of a special anniversary day held last year: a ‘Peace Tree’.
Yorkshire Friends petition MPs for nuclear ban
Huddersfield Quakers have written to four Kirklees MPs asking them to sign the parliamentary nuclear ban pledge. So far one, Thelma Walker, MP for Colne Valley, Huddersfield, has signed.
Friend takes issue with army adverts
A London-based Friend has criticised the British army recruitment adverts to ‘find where you belong’ in an article in The Big Issue.
BYM backs Oxfam ‘inequality report’
Britain Yearly Meeting (BYM) has called for the ‘inequality gap’ to end, following a report by Oxfam which shows that the gap between the richest and the poorest has widened.
Pledge to reduce animal products
Friends House has announced it will make a public commitment to further promote sustainable, compassionate eating by becoming a ‘CreatureKind’ institution.
Quaker-Buddhist crossover
A Quaker and Buddhist scholar is a keynote speaker at the 2018 Earlham School of Religion (ESR) Spirituality Gathering in the USA this spring.
Art the Arms Fair to return
The highly successful Arts the Arms Fair is to be repeated in September 2019 to coincide with the next Defence and Security Equipment International (DSEI) arms fair, the Friend can exclusively reveal.
Peace Museum hosts CND anniversary exhibition
An exhibition marking the anniversary of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND) opened at the Peace Museum in Bradford on 12 January – sixty years after the organisation was founded.
New England Quakers remember Mary Dyer
New England Quakers celebrated Religious Freedom Day last week (16 January) by paying tribute to Mary Dyer, a Quaker hung in Boston, Massachusetts, for her religious beliefs for repeatedly defying a law banning Friends entering the colony in the 1650s.
Friends get active for Holocaust Memorial Day
The Holocaust Memorial Day HMD) Trust has identified ‘the power of words’ as a unifying theme for the 2018 remembrance of the millions killed in the Holocaust under Nazi persecution, and in the later genocides in Cambodia, Rwanda, Bosnia and Darfur.