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Meeting for Sufferings: Looking ahead to April
Clerk Ethel Livermore explained that the next Meeting for Sufferings, on 2 April, will focus on ‘Quaker values are active in the world’.
Meeting for Sufferings: Epistle from World Plenary
Extracts from the epistle of the Friends World Committee for Consulation World Plenary held in Pisac, Peru, were read by the clerk of Meeting for Sufferings, Ethel Livermore.
Friends back Stop Trident events
Britain Yearly Meeting has given its support to two major Stop Trident events to be held later this month.
Friends host workshop on Iona
Iona Abbey, one of the oldest and most sacred religious places in all of western Europe, is to be the venue for a workshop run by Quakers in early April.
Housing takes centre stage
Friends House will play host to a conference on housing on Saturday 20 February.
Friends to demonstrate at Willesden
Quakers will attend a demonstration outside Willesden Magisrates’ Court on Wednesday 24 February in support of Sam Sender, of Ealing Meeting, who is being sentenced that day.
East Cheshire Quakers mark centenary of ‘conscience clause’
East Cheshire Quakers are leading up to their exhibition ‘War and Conscience: Choices Then and Now 1916-2016’, at Macclesfield Library, with a preliminary promotional display (see photograph).
Friends mark major centenary
The work by Quakers to ensure recognition of the right to refuse to kill was marked at Westminster last week on the centenary of the passing of the Military Service Act in 1916. An event was held in the Atlee Suite at Portcullis House beside the House of Commons on Wednesday 27...
Skipton Friends celebrate centenary of peace congress
A special event took place at the Friends Meeting House in Skipton, North Yorkshire, on 27 January to remember the International Congress of Women that was held in The Hague in 1915 as a response to the carnage of world war one.
Friends in Hastings: 150 years of worship
Quakers in Hastings in Sussex recently marked the one hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the opening of their Meeting house with a celebration on 25 January.