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  • 13 Mar 2008
    Quakers express support for campaigners arrested over Diego Garcia protest

    British Quakers today lent their support to the concerns of the two human rights campaigners arrested off Diego Garcia after protesting about the island's use in British and US military operations.

  • 12 Mar 2008
    Churches prepare to mark fifth anniversary of Iraq invasion

    In the run up to the fifth anniversary of the invasion of Iraq, churches are reiterating their call for British troops to withdraw from the country and will join in a 'Christian Peace Witness for Iraq'

  • 8 Jan 2008
    Army under fire for recruitment that glamourises war

    Representative's of Britain's armed forces are reacting with fury to a report which says that some of their recruitment advertising is giving young people, in particular, a misleading and glamourised picture of military life.

  • 5 Jan 2008
    Historic peace churches commit to healing in a violent world

    Representatives of the world's Historic Peace Churches gathered in Solo, Indonesia in December 2007, to ask what "Peace in Our Land" means - through the interrelated topics of injustice, religious pluralism, and poverty.

  • 4 Dec 2007
    Quakers gear up to celebrate 60 years since Nobel Peace Prize award

    Quakers are gearing up to celebrate the 60th anniversary of their award of the Nobel Peace Prize.

  • 16 Sep 2007
    Quakers sing it loud and proud

    Quakers, often known for the quietness and stillness of their meetings as well as their commitment to justice and peacemaking, are being urged to 'drop their traditional modesty' for the first ever National Quaker Week.

  • 16 Mar 2007
    Online exhibition traces origins of slave trade abolition

    Quakers in Britain have launched an online exhibition of archived resources tracing the history of the anti slavery movement from its Quaker beginnings to the passing of the Abolition of the Slave Trade Act in 1807 and beyond.

  • 9 Mar 2007
    Being a cautious mystic

    Johan Maurer asks what we mean by spiritual experience and mysticism

  • 14 Feb 2007
    US religious leaders are going to Iran to talk peace

    While diplomatic and military rhetoric in the exchanges between the United States and Iranian senior politicians remains heated, thirteen Christian leaders from the USA are preparing for a visit to Iran next week (17-25 February 2007) ‚Ä' with the aim of building bridges rather than stoking conflict.

  • 13 Feb 2007
    Quaker trust withdraws holding from arms related company

    A major charitable trust has disposed of a £2 million shareholding in the company Reed Elsevier, because of its concerns over the company's involvement in promoting arms sales, reports Quaker Peace and Social Witness - part of the Society of Friends in the UK.