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- SAQN 256, August 2025, now available 27 August 2025
- Epistle of the BBIPOC Gathering 7 July 2025
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Category Archives: World issues
Can There Be a Nonviolent Response to Terrorism?
Quaker professor George Lakey’s “8 Ways to Defend Against Terror Nonviolently” piqued the Pentagon’s interest. Click on the image below to view the QuakerSpeak video.
FWCC items in The Friend
There are several interesting articles relating to the FWCC World Plenary held in Peru in 19 February edition of The Friend. Download the the PDF file of The Friend to read them.
Important issues that came out of FWCC
Email from the FWCC office in London Dear Friends, We hope you are all well and send our loving greetings from the World Office in London. Many of you will be sharing your experience with others, some will be offering presentations … Continue reading
Leading the FWCC worship
This morning saw West Africa and C&SAYM leading the worship — Khosi looking traditional, and Justine looking colourful.
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European Quakers call for an end to the cycle of violence
FWCC Europe and Middle East Section Peace and Service Consultation [to go directly to the statement, click here] from George Thurley From the 20th to the 22nd of November, 23 Friends from a number of European countries met in Belgium … Continue reading
Posted in Ethics, Position Statements, Quaker community, World community, World issues
Tagged Calais, change agents, Croatia, Europe, Germany, Paris, quakers, refugees, Slovenia, The Jungle
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Pope holds up Philadelphia’s founding Quakers as inspiration for religious tolerance
As the Pope spoke in Philadelphia this weekend: “The Quakers who founded Philadelphia were inspired by a profound evangelical sense of the dignity of each individual and the ideal of a community united by brotherly love. This conviction led them to found a … Continue reading
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Washington Quakers welcome Pope’s upcoming visit
The Friends Committee on National Legislation, a Quaker organisation working for policy changes on Capitol Hill, has issued an article on the upcoming Papal visit and address to a joint sitting of Congress on 24 September. The article details a number … Continue reading
Quakers urgently call for safe paths for refugees
“That which is morally wrong cannot be politically right” — Quaker faith & practice 23.26 The representative body of Quakers in Britain, Meeting for Sufferings, has made the following statement in reaction to the unfolding refugee crisis. “Quakers in Britain … 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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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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