‘Many LGBTQIA+ people have been badly hurt and let down by their churches and faith communities.'…
by Rebecca Hardy
Peace campaigners are calling on the government to redirect money spent on Armed Forces Day (AFD), saying it ‘normalises’ war to children.
A group of Quakers have spoken out about the Supreme Court ruling on the legal definition of sex.
Britain Yearly Meeting (BYM) has joined over fifty organisations calling for a rethink on UK military spending, ahead of the NATO summit in Ankara.
An award-winning folksinger played to East Garston Quakers for a midsummer musical evening last month.
Over a hundred singers stood outside Lambeth Palace and Westminster Abbey last weekend, calling for the Church of England (CoE) to rewild church land.
Two Westminster Quakers joined a monthly silent walk last month to remember the seventy-two people killed by the Grenfell Tower disaster on 14 June 2017.
Britain Yearly Meeting (BYM) has joined a new coalition of churches and faith charities calling on the UK government to act over the occupation of Palestine.
The Quaker Arts Network (QAN) is launching a nature-based writing initiative.
Following the death of Henry Novak, the 2025 Salter Lecturer Abimbola Johnson has called for claims of ‘two-tier’ policing to not derail progress in anti-racism work. The…
Britain Yearly Meeting (BYM) has said that the Court of Appeal’s decision to uphold the proscription of Palestine Action (PA) as a terrorist group risks ‘stifling dissent’.
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