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The Young Adult Friends Development Fund (formerly the Youth Pilgrimage fund) has re-opened, following a period on hold during the pandemic restrictions. Already in 2023 three young adult Friends (YAFs) … Read more

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The commencement of Southern Africa Yearly Meeting in January 2023 marks the beginning of a global process of discussion and discernment among Quakers on the theme of Ubuntu, leading to … Read more

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At the global climate talks in Egypt from 6 – 18 November, Quakers continued their intensive advocacy for sufficient climate finance to developing countries, for a new international fund for … Read more

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Based on the number of reports received, World Quaker Day 2022 was the biggest on record, as Friends around the world responded to the invitation to send or receive visitors … Read more

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The highest governing body of the World Council of Churches has called on Christians everywhere to search for an “ecumenism of the heart”, described as “a Christlike love that moves … Read more

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The Friends World Committee for Consultation has joined with 139 other faith organisations in welcoming the first Meeting of States Parties to the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons. … Read more

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Planning for George Fox’s 400th Birthday “I was born in the month called July in the year 1624, at Drayton-in-the-Clay in Leicestershire”  – From the first page of George Fox’s … Read more

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Quakers have made a number of interventions calling for urgent, fair and transformative climate action to transform root causes driving climate change at the latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change … Read more

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The Friends World Committee has called on the UN for guns to be kept out of the hands of children. Delivering the message on behalf of Quakers worldwide, QUNO Geneva … Read more

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Christians around the world have spoken out against the invasion of Ukraine. Here are just some of their statements, in Russian, Ukrainian and English. To add your voice, sign the … Read more