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SAQN articles needed!
The SA Quaker News Editor is looking for articles, book reviews and other material for the next SAQN. If you have any thoughts or comments particularly about Sustainability, please send them along. Contributions should be about 1500 words at most, … Continue reading
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70th anniversary of the nuclear bombing of Japan
Thursday, the 6th August, is the 70th anniversary of the nuclear bombing of Japan. The Pretoria Worship Group will be holding a Meeting for Worship on Thursday. Below is a link to an interview from the 1980s with the Catholic chaplain to the … Continue reading
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Book Review: A Light that is Shining, An introduction to the Quakers, 3rd edition by Harvey Gillman
A Light that is Shining: An introduction to the Quakers, 3rd edition (2003) by Harvey Gillman Quaker Books, London Book Review by Jeanne Viljoen, Pretoria Worship Group Gillman wrote the book as Outreach Secretary for Quakers in Britain and he intended it … Continue reading
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Quaker conference examines lives of LGBTI community in Zimbabwe
The FGC (Friends General Conference) discussed issues of LGBTI community in Zimbabwe in their Yearly Meeting in mid-2015. The FGC is the more liberal, and unprogrammed branch of Quakerism in the USA. Gays and Lesbians of Zimbabwe (GALZ) is an organization … Continue reading
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Book Review: Betsy — The dramatic biography of prison reformer Elizabeth Fry
Betsy: The dramatic biography of prison reformer Elizabeth Fry by Jean Hatton Book Review by Amanda Gibberd, Pretoria Worship Group I came across this book during Meeting one Sunday around March last year. I’d read a news article on the … Continue reading
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2014 Swarthmore Lecture — What it means to be a Quaker today
The 2014 Swarthmore lecture by Ben Pink Dandelion is available at the Woodbrooke Quaker Study Centre site. The Swarthmore Lecture was given on Sunday 3rd August 2014 as part of British Quakers’ Yearly Meeting Gathering at the University of Bath. … Continue reading
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Experts praise Zambian death penalty amnesties
Two UN human rights experts have welcomed a decision by Zambian President Edgar Lungu to commute the death sentences of 332 prisoners to life terms. The UN Special Rapporteurs on summary executions, Pretoria University professor Christof Heyns, and on torture, … Continue reading
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African faith-based organisations urge respect for region’s resources
Speaking of the African Faith Leaders’ Statement on Financing for Development, issued following a side event at the 3rd United Nations Financing for Development Conference in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, The Rev Nicta Lubaale, General Secretary of the Organisation of African … Continue reading
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Quakers in South Africa
Quakers in South Africa have always been a small group, but with an influence that far outstrips their size. Today they are still actively concerned with justice, peacemaking, development, education and political activism. Read about Quakerism in South Africa — … Continue reading
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Why women peacemakers marched in Korea
In this column, Mairead Maguire, peace activist from Northern Ireland and Nobel Peace Laureate 1976, explains why thirty women peacemakers from 15 countries made a historic crossing of the demilitarised zone between North and South Korea in May, and describes … Continue reading
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