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Friends have joined calls for the UK government to resist pressure from the North Sea oil and gas industry to scrap the windfall tax on fossil-fuel firms three years early.
Christian Climate Action (CCA) launched a table last month showing the extent of fossil-fuel funding within the Church of England. The table reveals which cathedrals still bank…
Quakers have called for ‘radical ways to understand and overturn extractive capitalism’.
Defend Our Juries (DOJ) has been awarded the 2026 Quaker Truth & Integrity Award for its ‘courageous and persistent defence of the constitutional importance of trial by jury’.
Quaker spiritual accompaniers are coming together this month in what is thought to be the first gathering of its kind. The event at Peterborough Meeting House on 31 October will…
Cirencester Friends have hosted an event to explore the themes described in the 2026 Swarthmore Lecture.
The American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) and Athens (Georgia)Religious Society of Friends hosted the first of four rallies against the Trump administration this month.
Eighty singers from the Quaker-founded Climate Choir Movement gathered at Liverpool Street Station in London last weekend to urge Andy Burnham to reject the Rosebank oilfield.
Britain Yearly Meeting (BYM) has joined talks with a Jamaican government delegation which petitioned Charles Mountbatten Windsor over reparation for enslavement.
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