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• Quakers join call urging UK government to support UN Gaza inquiry

  1 June 2018

  Shocking violence suffered by Palestinians on the Gaza border in recent months has left 112 Palestinians dead and more than 13,300 injured. The UN Human Rights Council voted recently to establish an independent Commission of Inquiry. However, the UK government abstained. Quakers are appalled.

• Jocelyn Bell Burnell in conversation

  26 May 2018

  This week Quakers across Britain are heading for Hay Literary Festival. The impressive line-up of 600 speakers includes Quakers Jocelyn Bell Burnell and author Sally Nicholls.

• Quakers condemn provocative US embassy move

  14 May 2018

  Amid rising tension and aggression in the region, opening the new US embassy in Jerusalem is an act of provocation as Palestinians mourn the 70th anniversary of the Nakba (catastrophe), say Quakers in Britain.

• Quakers take long hard look at faith

  7 May 2018

  Quakers in Britain are taking a bold step to rewrite their book of discipline that has guided their work and witness across the centuries.

• Home Secretary: discriminatory policies need more than just a rebrand

  3 May 2018

  Quakers in Britain encourage new Home Secretary Sajid Javid to change government's discriminatory policies. They say this is now 'a question of civil rights and liberties, and like every civil rights movement before, Quakers stand on the side of the oppressed.'

• Yearly Meeting may plan to revise book of discipline

  27 April 2018

  More than one thousand Quakers from across Britain are heading to London next week for Yearly Meeting. They may decide to re-write Quaker faith & practice. This is the book of discipline that has guided their work and worship across the centuries.

• Tax should not be seen as a burden, say churches

  23 April 2018

  Quakers are supporting Church Action for Tax Justice (CAT), a new movement for tax justice, launched recently in the House of Lords.

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