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• Churches call for restorative justice as Quakers highlight healing over punishment

  28 July 2025

  A new report shows that Christian organisations, including Quakers, support the failing criminal justice system by taking on roles once delivered by public services.

• Joint statement on mass starvation across Gaza

  24 July 2025

  24 July 2025

• Quakers welcome Civil Society Covenant but say action must follow

  22 July 2025

  Quakers in Britain has welcomed a new agreement aimed at improving how government works with faith groups, charities and community organisations.

• Israel deepens illegal occupation of Palestine as influential states fail to act, Quakers say

  21 July 2025

  A full year after the International Court of Justice (ICJ) ruled Israel's occupation of Palestine illegal, the UK government has not responded, let alone addressed the situation.

• Young Peacemakers share their hopes at Manchester’s first Peer Mediation Conference

  16 July 2025

  “It's helped me because when someone is not being nice and kind to me, instead of just snapping […] it's helped me to actually back away," Zak, Year 6 peer mediator.

• Quakers back global faith outcry over backsliding on climate ahead of COP30

  15 July 2025

  Insufficient action and backsliding in the international community on climate change cause for deep concern, faith groups say.

• Quakers urge review of protest convictions amid growing threat to civil liberties

  9 July 2025

  Quakers in Britain has written to Home Secretary Yvette Cooper urging her to review the convictions of peaceful protesters arrested under unlawful regulations.

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