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• Quakers join world faiths in calling for bolder action as COP27 negotiations stall

  17 November 2022

  World representatives gathered at COP27 must make bold decisions now if they are to protect the most vulnerable people and communities, faith leaders have said as negotiations hang in the balance.

• Quakers break bread with other faiths

  17 November 2022

  Quakers across the country have been opening their doors and breaking bread with people from across the faith spectrum to mark Inter Faith Week.

• Quaker composer premieres new choral work exploring shadow of torture

  11 November 2022

  Leading composer Sally Beamish's new work, 'A Knock on the Door', uses two choirs representing detainees and interrogators, to explore how torture damages all involved.

• Quakers united in opposition to war

  11 November 2022

  Eight Quaker agencies have signed a joint statement on the peace testimony and the war in Ukraine.

• Quakers join millions demanding climate justice at COP27

  10 November 2022

  Quakers are joining mass action across the globe to demand climate justice as states meet in Egypt to try and agree how to tackle climate change.

• Quakers concerned by Home Secretary’s inflammatory rhetoric and failures in the asylum system

  3 November 2022

  Quakers are writing to the Home Secretary to express concern that the 'hostile environment' of dangerously over-crowded immigration centres and demonisation of migrants in parliament is fanning the flames of hate.

• Quakers opening warm banks despite ‘rage at necessity’

  2 November 2022

  Quakers offer meeting houses as warm spaces, but call for solutions which tackle the root causes of fuel poverty.

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