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Governments urged to cancel Egyptian debt
Western governments have been urged to cancel debts built up by the Mubarak regime in Egypt.
Protests at Barclays
Quakers have held a Meeting for Worship in a high street bank as part of a protest against corporate tax avoidance. Around twenty Friends peacefully entered Barclay’s Bank in Cornmarket, Oxford, on Saturday and sat down in the public area.
Inspiring women
Three Quakers are among the 100 most inspiring women in the Midlands, according to a list published by Oxfam ahead of International Women’s Day.
Meeting for Sufferings
What does the future hold? A topic of vital importance to the governance of the Religious Society of Friends was given careful reflection and discernment at Meeting for Sufferings on 5 February: the future role of Meeting for Sufferings itself.
Meeting for Sufferings
The introduction of Saturday’s preparation group on Meeting for Sufferings focused on four specific questions. In the event, more than half the comments and questions focused on our role with the Occupied Settlements. This is a concern of many Friends. Some Friends discerned a leading for Sufferings to reconsider...
Arms and Egypt
The close relationship between several arms-producing countries in the European Union (EU)and the regime of president Hosni Mubarak in Egypt has been brought to light. In recent years the Mubarak regime has benefitted from a sharp increase in arms sales from EU countries. The evidence was found in an...
Postgraduate degrees in Quaker studies
Three Friends have become the latest to receive postgraduate degrees in Quaker Studies.
Boycott, divestment and sanctions
‘We are constantly caught between the world as it is and the world as we would wish it to be.’ These words expressed a dilemma at the heart of a very stimulating consideration of the situation in Israel and Palestine at Meeting for Sufferings, held at Friends House on Saturday ...
Boycott, divestment and sanctions
Meeting for Sufferings (MfS), held at Friends House on Saturday 2 April, returned to the issue of boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) as a response to the occupation of the Palestinian territories.
Boycotting the census
Support is growing for a boycott of this year’s census over the involvement of a US-based multinational arms company. The contract for co-ordinating the census has been awarded to Lockheed Martin, one of the world’s largest arms firms.