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Meeting for Sufferings: Worship, business and fellowship
The first Meeting for Sufferings of 2017 was held in the George Fox Room at Friends House in London on Saturday 4 February and proved to be a very successful day of worship, business and fellowship. Friends, who had come from every corner of Britain, engaged with a number of subjects of...
Meeting for Sufferings: Mid-triennium review for Sufferings
The triennium of the present Meeting for Sufferings runs from Yearly Meeting 2015 to Yearly Meeting 2018. All members of Sufferings, which includes both representatives and alternates, were invited to the first meeting of the triennium in July 2016. The Meeting included a section devoted to induction.
Meeting for Sufferings: Creativity in housing solutions
‘Five households in Britain become homeless every hour,’ Jenny Brierley, clerk of the Quaker Housing Trust (QHT), told Meeting for Sufferings. Speaking to QHT’s Third Triennial Report she said that Britain’s housing crisis is getting worse. Those on the lowest incomes are invariably the hardest hit and accommodation...
Meeting for Sufferings: Fracking concern from Pendle Hill
Increasing concern over fracking for shale gas in Britain was the subject of a minute to Meeting for Sufferings from Pendle Hill Area Meeting. Drilling to see if fracking is feasible is often conducted despite widespread opposition in an area. A Friend said he was ‘particularly perturbed about the overriding...
Meeting for Sufferings: Truth and integrity in public affairs
Sufferings was asked to reflect on the lack of transparency and integrity in government and prompted to articulate ‘this developing concern’.
Meeting for Sufferings: Meeting for Sufferings Annual Report
The draft Annual Report of Meeting for Sufferings for 2016, which had been prepared by the clerk working with the Arrangements Group, was given to Sufferings for approval.
Meeting for Sufferings: Recent arrests
Two Friends have been added to the court and prison register. Ian Bray, of Huddersfield Meeting (Brighouse West Yorkshire Area Meeting), was arrested on the 19 November 2016 with fourteen others during a nonviolent direct action against the expansion of Heathrow Airport. He was given a twelve-month conditional discharge and a fine...
Meeting for Sufferings: Yearly Meeting Gathering 2017
Sufferings heard that the aim of Yearly Meeting Gathering 2017, to be held in Warwick 29 July – 5 August, was to ‘create an inclusive, warm and loving atmosphere’ that would nurture Friends in their witness in living ‘in the Kingdom of God here and now.’
High Court hearing on arms exports
This week the High Court in London has been hearing a judicial review into the legality of UK arms exports to Saudi Arabia for use in the ongoing bombing of Yemen.
Hereford Expo protest
Herefordshire Friends joined protesters in Hereford on 1 February to express their concern about the first Herefordshire Defence and Security Expo being held in the Courtyard Theatre, Jim Wood told the Friend.