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Friends hear from Gaza
Quakers came together online last week to hear the voices of people affected by the bombing in Gaza and the West Bank. The webinar called ‘Hearing from Gaza and the West Bank’, hosted on 27 May by the Ecumenical Accompaniment Programme in Palestine and Israel (EAPPI) team, included Azzam from Gaza,...
Honour for enslaved woman at Quaker house
A historic house in the US is to honour an enslaved woman who saved the Quaker-built home from a fire set by the British during the American revolution. The woman, known as Dinah, was ‘inherited’ by Quaker William Logan from his wife Hannah Emlen and lived at Friend David Hickokâ€...
Quaker universalists ponder ‘life, time and eternity’
‘Life, time and eternity’ was the theme for this year’s Quaker Universalist Group’s conference, with speakers including an anthropologist, a Christian retired vicar, a Muslim shaykh, a Zen Buddhist, a leading physicist and a lecturer in Hinduism.
EU climate policy ‘not coherent’, says QCEA
A new report by Quaker Council for European Affairs (QCEA) has said the European Union climate policy is ‘not always coherent’ with the bloc’s stance on peace and human rights. The new report on climate, peace and human rights also says that the ‘EU’s increasingly militarised approaches to...
Florence Meeting finds new home
The group of Friends who formed a Florence Meeting two years ago have relocated to an English cemetery with Quaker connections. Kirsten Hills, who grew up as an attender in Canterbury Meeting, brought together a group of Friends after ‘craving’ the ‘silence, peace and headspace’.
Newport Friends Journey to COP 26
Newport Quakers climbed Fan y Bîg in the Brecon Beacons last month, as part of the Journey to COP26 initiative, where people went on pilgrimages to celebrate the natural world. Three local Friends and two guests climbed to the summit on 10 April to unfurl their recently-crafted Newport Quaker banner,...
Police apologise to Quaker after unlawful arrest
A Quaker arrested for protesting during the January lockdown has received an apology from the police, as well as substantial damages.
Paul Parker marks ten years with BYM
Quaker Paul Parker has written about his first decade as recording clerk of Britain Yearly Meeting (BYM) in an article on the Quakers in Britain website. Recalling ten Quaker landmarks, starting with the 2011 Canterbury Commitment – when Yearly Meeting committed ‘to become a low-carbon, sustainable community’ – he mentions milestones such as...
Quaker continues witness to feminism
Quaker author Lucy-Anne Holmes has interviewed fifty-one women from all over the world for a book about sex. In Women on Top of the World – published in the US this month, following its UK release in February – the Hertfordshire Friend spoke to the women about ‘what they think of during...
Bookings to open for Quaker Gathering
Bookings will soon open for the 2021 Yearly Meeting Gathering (YMG), which is themed ‘For our comfort and discomfort: living equality and truth in a time of crisis’. Online sessions will focus on Quaker work for climate and racial justice, as well as ongoing discernment around gender diverse people.