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Meeting for Sufferings: Area Meeting minutes
Trustees are not aware of any companies in the West Bank in which Britain Yearly Meeting has invested, Meeting for Sufferings heard on 2 December.
Meeting for Sufferings: Court and prison register
Sufferings heard that Ian Bray, from Brighouse West Yorkshire Area Meeting (AM), was arrested in London in October as part of an action to highlight air pollution. He was sentenced to one week in prison. He had pleaded not guilty, along with three others, to charges of criminal damage and...
Friends visit Congo Quakers
Three Friends from the Quaker Congo Partnership UK recently visited the Quaker community in South Kivu despite advice from the Foreign and Commonwealth Office not to visit the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Church and Peace warns on EU ‘Instrument’
Church and Peace – the ecumenical Peace Church network made up of communities, training centres, peace organisations and peace-service agencies in Europe – has warned against the extension of the European Union’s ‘Instrument contributing to Stability and Peace’ to include military support to third countries.
Quaker Tapestry launches 2018 calendar
The Quaker Tapestry in Kendal, Cumbria, has produced a calendar for 2018.
Meeting for Sufferings: Welcome and hospitality
Two important subjects received thoughtful and perceptive discernment from Friends at Meeting for Sufferings, which was held in the Large Meeting House at Friends House, London, on Saturday 2 December, and decisions were made on both of them. The two subjects presented to Friends were the revised Sanctuary Everywhere Manifesto, received...
Meeting for Sufferings: ‘Get on your bikes’ for the common good
Friends are invited to ‘get on their bikes’ in the summer of 2018. Meeting for Sufferings on 2 December heard details of a minute from Kendal & Sedbergh Area Meeting (AM) regarding the group ‘For the Common Good’. There was an important update about the ‘Ride for Equality and the Common Good’,...
The Fearless Benjamin Lay
Benjamin Lay, the eighteenth century Quaker who used confrontational protest to persuade the Religious Society of Friends to oppose slavery, has been formally re-associated with his faith community after having been disowned for nearly 300 years.
Quaker call on climate change
Britain Yearly Meeting (BYM) is calling on the government to face up to the UK’s full obligations to tackle climate change.
ICAN wins Nobel Peace Prize
The Nobel Peace PrizE for 2017 has been awarded to the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN), the global network that supported the 122 states backing the recent UN treaty on the prohibition of nuclear weapons.