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Quakers welcome interfaith letter after police raid on Westminster meeting house
19 May 2025
Quakers in Britain have welcomed strong support from other faiths after the police raid on Westminster Quaker meeting house in March.
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Quakers welcome Court of Appeal ruling on anti-protest laws
8 May 2025
Quakers have welcomed a court ruling that the UK Government broke the law when it gave police extra powers to restrict protests that caused “more than minor" disruption.
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Quakers call for change in law targeting Gypsy and Traveller communities
30 April 2025
Quakers in Britain have joined over 20 organisations in calling on the government to scrap a law they say unfairly targets Gypsy and Traveller communities.
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Quakers support exhibition on complex fight for abolition
29 April 2025
A new exhibition about the contested history of the fight to end the transatlantic trade in enslaved people features items from Quakers in Britain collections.
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Quakers condemn police raid on Westminster Meeting House
28 March 2025
Police broke into a Quaker Meeting House last night (27 March) and arrested six young people holding a meeting over concerns for the climate and Gaza.
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Government urged to reverse decision to close off citizenship to people arriving irregularly
18 February 2025
The Quaker Asylum and Refugee Network (QARN) has criticised new Home Office guidance that makes it even more difficult for refugees to become British citizens.