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Friends World Committee for Consultation has closed the successful campaign to help Rwanda Yearly Meeting address an urgent need to install lightning rods on 35 buildings (at around £400 each) in Rwanda Yearly Meeting following several fatal lightning strikes affecting churches, schools and other buildings. The government decreed that they must install lightning rods on … Read more…
As General Secretary of FWCC, I received a letter from the Pontifical Council on behalf of Pope Francis inviting all people of faith to join in a day of prayer and fasting for peace on Friday 23 February. In particular, we are asked collectively to pray for the cessation of violence and social-political tension in … Read more…
The Central Executive Committee (CEC) of the Friends World Committee for Consultation expects to meet next from 29 April to 4 May 2018 at Moyallon, Northern Ireland, UK. The agenda includes: · Further consideration of the 2016 minute on Sustainability, and the work of the new Sustainability Communications Officer; · Further consideration of FWCC’s commitment to overcoming historical patterns … Read more…
FWCC General Secretary Gretchen Castle reports on recent ecumenical activities. The Ecumenical Strategic Forum on Diakonia and Sustainable Development, sponsored by the World Council of Churches in Geneva, brought together over 100 partners from around the world to explore the great potential of faith based organizations to assist in the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals. … Read more…
FWCC’s Sustainability Communications Officer Susanna Mattingly reports on the first week of the 23rd Conference of Parties (COP23) held in November in Bonn. I spent a week in Bonn, Germany from 6-12 November, at the 23rd Conference of Parties (COP23) of the United Nations Framework Conference on Climate Change (UNFCCC), presided over by Fiji. This was the … Read more…
In 2018, FWCC will be completely revising Friends Around the World (FAW), the international Friends directory. You can help! Please look at the current text of Friends Around the World*. If you see anything relating to a Yearly Meeting or other organisation you are involved with that needs to be corrected or updated, please click … Read more…
FWCC has joined 130 other international and domestic peace-building organizations in releasing a statement to mark the International Day of Peace on 21 September. The statement calls on the international community and the UN General Assembly to fully embrace the commitments to peace in the 2030 Agenda; balance national efforts with a focus on regional … Read more…
FWCC is pleased to announce that the 2017 version of the Finding Quakers Around the World Map is now available. This map shows at a glance where there are Friends in different parts of the world, including numbers. It also has contact details for the FWCC offices around the world; they can give you contact … Read more…
Susanna Mattingly takes up the newly created post of Sustainability Communications Officer in the FWCC World Office from today. Susanna’s role is to build Friends’ collaborative efforts around the concern of sustaining life on earth. She will work jointly with FWCC and Britain Yearly Meeting’s Quaker World Relations Committee to expand the network of Friends … Read more…
Kirundi FWCC Clerk Simon C. Lamb writes about his visit to Friends in Burundi, the third largest group of Friends in the world. Since returning from Africa I have been wanting to write to you all about the wonderful experience three of us had in visiting and being hosted by members of the Quaker community … Read more…