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Quakers reap the benefits of evening worship
Last week, Beverley Meeting became the latest Quakers to introduce an evening Meeting for Worship – and of the eight people worshipping, two had never attended a Quaker Meeting before. Brian Fellowes of Beverley Meeting told the Friend: ‘they both said they’d been interested in Quakers for some time, had...
New film highlights inspiring Quaker work in Rwanda
Staff at Friends House in London last week previewed ICYIZERE:hope, a moving and provocative documentary by Patrick Mureithi about a Rwandan Quaker initiative that brings together survivors and perpetrators of the 1994 genocide. The film, still a work in progress, features a three-day workshop entitled Healing and Rebuilding Our Communities....
Terry Waite welcomes charity to new home in the neighbourhood
Staff, supporters, volunteers, trustees and partners of Quaker Social Action (QSA) gathered last week to watch Terry Waite open the east London charity’s new premises in Bethnal Green. Waite, who has recently become a Quaker, spoke movingly of the problems that affect those at the bottom of the economic...
Friends ‘stand up’ to fight world poverty
Friends across the country ‘stood up’ last weekend as part of the three day Stand Up campaign coordinated worldwide by the Global Call to Action Against Poverty (GCAP) movement. As well as the symbolic act of literally standing up, repeated in homes, public spaces, schools and churches around the world,...
Actor inspires students at school
Union branch backs Friends’ same-sex marriage decision
A branch of the Unite trade union has passed a resolution supporting Britain Yearly Meeting’s minute regarding same-sex marriages, and pushing for its principles to be enshrined in British law. Secretary Mary O’Brien described the LE/524 branch as ‘a large voluntary sector branch which has most of the...
Quakers prepare to launch new ‘inreach’ materials
Becoming Friends, a specially developed education programme for new Friends and enquirers, has now successfully completed trial runs in Meetings across the country and is ready to launch in early 2010. It came about as a joint enterprise between Quaker Life of Britain Yearly Meeting and Woodbrooke Quaker Study Centre after...
The rising cost of living longer
In 1948 life expectancy in the UK was sixty-six for men and seventy-one for women. Now the national average is seventy-seven for men and eighty-two for women. For the first time, there are more people over the age of sixty-five than there are under eighteen. While the fact that more...
What moves you? Leicester Quakers demonstrate their faith
Mount School gets new head
