The event attracts more than 10,000 attendees every year.…
by Rebecca Hardy
Quakers around the world marked the eighty-first anniversary of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombings this month – renewing their call for nuclear disarmament.
Peace campaigners have disagreed with the new prime minister (PM)’s analysis that increased nuclear spending will create more jobs.
The Quaker Asylum and Refugee Network (QARN) has backed a call from more than 200 organisations for Andy Burnham to adopt a ‘blueprint to fix the broken asylum system’.
Bristol Quakers have apologised for their role in trafficking enslaved African people. More than half a million people were forcibly carried across the Atlantic in Bristol ships.
Britain Yearly Meeting (BYM) has called on the new prime minister to place ‘peace, equality and climate justice’ at the centre of government policies.
The organisers of the Quaker peace walk have invited readers of the Friend to join the September gathering. Steve Day, co-organiser of the vigil, said: ‘We are now seven months…
Around 180 Friends from roughly twenty countries are attending a Friends World Committee for Consultation (FWCC) gathering next month.
Central England Quakers (CEQ) are celebrating Birmingham City Council’s vote to keep its City of Sanctuary status after a Reform bid to end it.
Britain Yearly Meeting (BYM) joined nearly twenty organisations calling on incoming prime minister Andy Burnham to take urgent action on Palestine.
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