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Friends discuss being an interfaith church
Quakers discussed ‘What it means to be a non-credal church’ last month, as the theme of a webinar run by the Quaker Committee for Christian and Interfaith Relations (QCCIR). The event on 29 April featured talks by Quaker theologians Rex Ambler, Janet Scott and Ben Wood, and was introduced by Marigold...
Friends successfully lobby for nuclear ban
North Wales Friends have said they are ‘overjoyed’ that Bangor City Council has become the first Welsh council to support the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW), after Quaker lobbying.
Concerns over Quaker labour practices
A Britain Yearly Meeting (BYM) staff member has written to the Friend highlighting ‘a communication gap between Quakers and the people they employ’.
Kendal Tapestry Museum reopens
The Quaker Tapestry Museum in Kendal has opened again with a new pictorial guide with large photographs of each panel and detailed explanations. Museum manager Bridget Guest said the tapestry came into being as eleven-year-old Jonathan Stocks chatted to his teacher Anne Wynn-Wilson at a Quaker Meeting in Somerset in 1981. â€...
Quaker ‘Question Time’ in Devon
Exeter Quakers hosted a Quaker ‘Question Time’ this month, featuring Exeter MP Ben Bradshaw and East Devon MP Simon Jupp.
Shell Seven verdict raises ‘big questions’
Courts can no longer protect companies from ‘climate flak’. This was the conclusion of an article in the Financial Times (FT) in response to the ‘not guilty’ verdict for six of the ‘Shell Seven’ protestors, who included the Quaker Extinction Rebellion (XR) cofounder Ian Bray.
‘Grave violations of international law’
Britain Yearly Meeting (BYM) has said that it has been ‘appalled’ by the violence in Israel and occupied Palestine, calling for these ‘grave violations of international law’ to ‘end immediately’.
Turkey in the spotlight for CO Day
Friends are getting ready for International Conscientious Objectors (COs) Day. This year’s national ceremony on 15 May will honour contemporary war resisters, as well as all those who have maintained the right to refuse to kill. Symon Hill, from the Peace Pledge Union (PPU), told the Friend: ‘This year, weâ€...
Friends join push to ‘save the NHS’
London Quakers are highlighting a new project launched to ‘save the NHS’.
Quakers in XR ‘Rebellion of One’
At least two Friends took part in one of Extinction Rebellion’s (XR) latest acts of protest, the Rebellion of One. Over 200 people came out on the streets on 1 May to take part in single-person roadblocks all over the country to raise awareness of the climate crisis.