‘We owe a debt to Margery Wilkinson for helping to keep our faith alive.'…
by Rebecca Hardy
Britain Yearly Meeting (BYM) said new protest restrictions voted in by MPs last week add to an ‘increasingly hostile climate’.
Northern Friends Peace Board (NFPB) has written to Keir Starmer about the Middle East crisis.
Quakers were among campaigners who gathered at the main gate of RAF Lakenheath this month to witness against US weapons in the UK. The protest and blockade on 4 April was organised…
Quakers have set up a new website to support their upcoming national peace rally.
A Quaker was among a group of Christian activists who chained themselves to a cross on Good Friday on the steps of St Paul’s Cathedral.
Quakers were among over half a million people who took to the streets of London this month to demonstrate against the far right in the UK.
Quakers in Nailsworth gathered for a peace vigil this month which featured in a local paper.
Quaker Voluntary Action (QVA) is calling for Friends to share volunteering stories for a nationwide week of action.
The theme for World Quaker Day (4 October) 2026 is to be ‘Let Peace Be Among Us’, announced Friends World Committee for Consultation (FWCC)last week. The theme stems from…
Britain Yearly Meeting (BYM) is ‘profoundly troubled by the Israeli Knesset’s passage of a law making the death penalty the default sentence for Palestinians convicted of…
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