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- Epistle of the Quaker Community in Southern Africa Yearly Meeting 2021 2 August 2021
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- SA Quaker News — June 2021 out now 14 June 2021
Category Archives: Quaker history
YM 2018 Minutes available
Please follow the link on the SAYM page to download the Minutes file. At present only the Minutes, with page references to the YM 2018 Handout/Agenda document are available. The Minutes will be integrated into the Handout/Agenda and the complete … Continue reading
Posted in Quaker community, Quaker history, Reports, Yearly Meeting
Tagged Africa, Hartbeespoort January 2018, SAYM 2018
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2018 Calendar: Quaker peace-building in art — now available
The 2018 Quaker peace-building in art calendar (30 cm × 30 cm) celebrates many kinds of peace-building and a variety of art works by Quakers from around the world. Short inspirational texts accompany the pictures, and a brief commentary introduces both the … Continue reading
Posted in Calendar items, FWCC, Publications, Quaker history, Spirituality, World community
Tagged 2018, art, calendar, FWCC, peace-building
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In turbulent times … be a Quaker
View the infographic on Quaker work for social and economic justice, sustainability, peace and the equality of all peoples on the Quakers in Britain website.
Posted in Activism, Ethics, History, Human Rights, Modern living, Quaker history, World community, World issues
Tagged Activism, Amnesty International, Freedom, homosexuality, Human Rights, Outreach, peace in Ireland, Quakers in Britain, same-sex marriage, slavery, United Nations, war relief
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Canadian Author with Quaker roots examines Quaker history
Heather Kirk has a way of bringing history to life and anchoring it to present day. If possible, she also brings it home to the neighbourhood. In this case, just down the road from Barrie in the Yonge street area … Continue reading
SAQN — September 2017 edition available
The latest edition of the SA Quaker News is now available on our Publications page. Contents include: Report on MYRM Quakers Thinking, including a piece on surviving the devastation of having one’s home destroyed by fire Quakers (and others) in … Continue reading
Campaigning for change: In it for the long haul
Paul Parker is Recording Clerk of Quakers in Britain, the closest the 13,000-strong Quaker community gets to a chief executive. Based at Friends House in Euston, he is responsible for Quakers’ work on peace, social justice and sustainability, and for … Continue reading
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Philly-based Quaker group marks 100 years of refugee relief and peace work
Refugees and responses to refugees are headline news at present. The 100 years of work by the AFSC is thus of significant interest. Report on the founding and work of the AFSC, in America.
Posted in Activism, History, Human Rights, Quaker history, Reports, World community, World issues
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Quaker history in East Africa — from FWCC Africa
Click below to read the article. History
Posted in History, Quaker history
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Honoring Those Known Only to God
American Quakers honouring unnamed African American Quakers buried in Quaker graveyards. Part of larger dialogue on racism within Yearly Meetings in America. From Friends Journal: In 2015, the Quaker project Honoring Those Known Only To God (the Honoring Project) convened itself for … Continue reading
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Churches say don’t drop the Dubs amendment
Quakers in Britain join together with other Churches to request the UK Government to implement their commitment to child refugees. Alf Dubs, a member of the UK House of Lords, was on the Kindertransport, which saved Jewish children from the Nazis. He … Continue reading
Posted in Ethics, History, Quaker history
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