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Quaker lockdown community marks 1,001 days
A Quaker community that was created to help Friends in lockdown marked its 1,001st online worship this month.
Auction of Quaker abolitionist archives
An archive of handwritten letters and printed material compiled by a leading Quaker abolitionist is going to auction next month.
Call for debate into ‘military space race’
Quakers are supporting calls for wider public discussion into military expansion into space.
Call to ‘defend democracy and human rights’
There is a pressing need to defend our human rights this year, Britain Yearly Meeting (BYM) has said, as more anti-democratic measures are in the pipeline. Writing on the Quakers in Britain website, Grace Da Costa says that significant legislation brought to parliament this year includes the Bill of Rights...
Friend’s 500-mile walk for rainforest
A Manchester Friend is walking 500 miles in the next twelve months to raise funds for a lawsuit to protect Malaysian people from environmental exploitation.
‘Ubuntu’ agenda for 2024 World Plenary
Tim Gee, general secretary of Friends Worldwide Committee for Consultation (FWCC), introduced ‘Ubuntu’, the 2024 World Plenary theme, to London Quakers earlier this month.
QCEA study tour a ‘major success’
Quaker Concern for European Affairs (QCEA) has said that its latest study tour ‘proved to be a major success with more than twenty participants from all over the world’.
QSA reports funeral director price failings
Quaker Social Action (QSA) has reported over 200 funeral directors to the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) for failing to clearly display their prices. The action follows new legal requirements for funeral firms, which include displaying prices online and in branches. The new Funerals Market Investigation Order was introduced in September 2021...
XR in New Year message: ‘We quit’
Extinction Rebellion (XR), the climate movement that includes many Quakers, has announced that it is ‘to temporarily shift away from public disruption as a primary tactic’.
Russian ceasefire was ‘space for peace’ say Quakers
The Fellowship of Reconciliation (FoR) has said that the Russian-announced ceasefire in Ukraine last weekend to mark Orthodox Christmas was ‘an opportunity to create space for peace to flourish’.