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Latest posts
- Epistle of the BBIPOC Gathering 7 July 2025
- Epistle from SAYM Yearly Meeting 2025 20 January 2025
- SAQN 255, October 2024, now available 30 October 2024
- SA Quaker News — March 2024 — Issue 254 28 March 2024
- Statement by Southern Africa Yearly Meeting of Quakers on Israel and Palestine 14 December 2023
Category Archives: World community
Epistle of QCEA General Assembly
9 April 2017 Andrew Lane To all Friends everywhere We met in Brussels on 7-8 April 2017 as the Quaker Council for European Affairs (QCEA’s) General Assembly of European Yearly Meeting representatives. Building on forty years of experience and support … Continue reading
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FWCC news: three major meetings coming up
FWCC is asking Friends to uphold three important gatherings that are taking place between now and 8 April. These meetings will guide the work of FWCC in the Americas and Africa, as well as at the global level. Click the … Continue reading
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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FWCC Arts Calendar 2018 to celebrate Quaker Peacemaking
For the artists among us, FWCC is partnering with Linda Murgatroyd to produce an arts calendar for 2018 celebrating Quaker Peacemaking around the world. We are keen to include artworks reflecting Quaker peacemaking around the world, and of different kinds, in a … Continue reading
Responding to forced migration
Britain Yearly Meeting’s Quaker News number 97 covers the current migration tragedy being played out on the world stage. Click on the link to download the PDF version of Quaker News 97.
Posted in Activism, Ethics, Newsletters, Publications, Quaker community, Resources, Uplift and outreach, World community, World issues
Tagged Europe, Refugee crisis, refugees, response
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World Quaker Day — 2 October; Quaker Week — 1-9 October
Britain Yearly Meeting is holding Quaker Week from 1-9 October, with the theme: Working together to build a better world. Their support material is on the BYM website. FWCC is using the theme “Inspired by Faith, Witnessing the World”. They have a … Continue reading
Hiroshima Day, Saturday 6th August 2016
On this day in 1945, at 8:16 a.m. Japanese time, an American B-29 bomber, the Enola Gay, drops the world’s first atom bomb, over the city of Hiroshima. Approximately 80,000 people are killed as a direct result of the … Continue reading
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New Outreach resources are now available
There are now additional resources for Quaker activities on our website. A Resources section has been added to our Publications page. The New England meeting has just made some new and useful Outreach resources available.
Quakers say “no” to TTIP
On 20 May 2016 Ecclesia published an article that begins as follows: “Five Quaker organisations from Europe and the United States have asked governments to say ‘no’ to the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP), the controversial ‘mega’ trade deal being … Continue reading
“Living Our Beliefs” — young British Quakers’ ideas on “Quaker Faith & Practice”
More than three hundred young Quakers living in Britain have contributed to a book summing up how they see Quakerism. Called Living our beliefs, it is available from the Quaker Centre Bookshop and as an ebook at www.yqspace.org.uk/living-our-beliefs. Playlists, video … Continue reading