Faiza Shaheen will deliver the 2027 Salter Lecture…
by Rebecca Hardy
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.
Quakers are getting ready for this weekend’s Silent Walking Vigil For Peace, with around 1,000 people expected.
A former reporter for the Friend was among a group of Christians witnessing outside a far-right conference last month.
Britain Yearly Meeting (BYM) has welcomed the raft of measures announced by the UK government last week which seek to reset British policy towards Israel.
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