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Young Friends launch podcast
Young Quakers have created a new podcast.
Alternative Remembrance Day events held in the UK
An Alternative Remembrance Sunday ceremony, organised by the Peace Pledge Union, was held in Tavistock Square in London. Speakers at the ceremony included Sam Walton, the Quaker activist who was recently found not guilty of criminal damage after attempting to disarm warplanes bound for Saudi use in Yemen. He criticised...
Coventry peace trail launched
Two Coventry Quakers, Carol Rank and Andrew Rigby, have written a booklet to guide visitors on the Coventry ‘peace trail’ and on 11 November they took twenty visitors on the first peace trail walk.
UN call to end Yemen blockade
Three UN agencies (the World Health Organisation, UNICEF and the World Food Programme) have called on the Saudi-led coalition to end the blockade on Yemen that has stopped vital humanitarian supplies from entering the country.
QCEA presentation in Strasbourg
The Quaker Council for European Affairs (QCEA) made a presentation on refugees and migration to the Committee of Ministers (the body representing the forty-seven national governments of the Council of Europe) in Strasbourg on November 7.
Nuclear disarmament
Beatrice Fihn, director of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN – the 2017 Nobel peace prizewinner), was among 400 clergy, diplomats, campaigners and Nobel laureates gathered in the Vatican on 10 and 11 November for a conference that explored integral nuclear disarmament together with solutions and prospects for a world free of nuclear...
Unlocking detention
The Quaker Asylum and Refugee Network (QARN) is urging Friends to support Unlocking Detention – ‘a virtual tour’ of the UK’s detention centres that is currently offering a spotlight on the hidden world of immigration detention.
High sales of white poppies
2017 has been another year for high sales of white poppies, the Peace Pledge Union has reported. Almost 100,000 had been sold as of 8 November. This is the fourth year running in which sales have been around the 100,000 mark.
Quaker presence at climate conference in Bonn
Quakers attended the UN Climate Change Conference (COP23) that took place from 6 to 17 November in Bonn, Germany. The nations of the world gathered with the aim of moving forward on the ambitions of the 2015 Paris Agreement. Syria signed the Agreement during COP23, leaving the US as the only country that...
Pickering Meeting hosts sustainability lecture
Pickering Meeting in Yorkshire recently hosted the fourth lecture since the Meeting and four other local churches were gifted a sum of money following the closure ten years ago of the town’s Good News Bookshop.