‘Children are forced to live from one minute to the next, thinking about the next meal, the next displacement, or the next attack.’…
by Rebecca Hardy
Around 100 Quakers gathered at Friends House for a landmark reparations event last week.
Britain Yearly Meeting (BYM) has said Friends ‘lament’ the government’s decision to approve drilling at the Jackdaw gasfield in the North Sea.
Christian social action has reached a ‘critical crossroads’, a new study has concluded.
A screenplay about a Victorian Quaker social reformer was nominated for Best Feature Screenplay at the Forward Film & Television Festival 2026 in Birmingham.
The National Trust is facing renewed pressure to drop its links with fossil-fuel banking.
Quakers joined campaigners outside the Houses of Parliament last week to call for oil and gas companies to pay their fair share towards climate damage.
Members of Friends International Centre Church in Kenya are calling for the church to be reopened.
The Quaker-linked Rowntree Society has launched a new website, to help more people explore Rowntree histories.
A Norwich Quaker held a silent one-woman protest last month as twenty white people gathered with St George’s flags.
Organisers of last month’s Quaker silent vigil were encouraged to receive a letter from the prime minister’s office last week.
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