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Quaker organizations issue joint statement on peace testimony and Ukraine

On October 26, eight Quaker organization heads issued a joint statement on the peace testimony and Ukraine. The statement notes:…

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Transatlantic Quaker action protests Vanguard’s environmental impacts

Quakers on both sides of the Atlantic joined together on October 7—the 250th anniversary of the death of American Quaker…

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Fire destroys Lindi Friends School in Nairobi, Kenya

On the evening of Sunday, July 24, a fire destroyed Lindi Friends School, run by Nairobi Yearly Meeting, in the…

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Historic peace activism sailboat Golden Rule to make another voyage

From 1946 to 1958, the United States detonated 67 nuclear bombs in the Marshall Islands displacing Indigenous inhabitants and spreading…

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Inner Light Books joins Barclay Press

The operations of Quaker publishing house Inner Light Books will be carried on by Barclay Press following the retirement of…

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Swastikas spray-painted at Haddonfield Meeting’s graveyard

On the morning of Friday, April 1, members of Haddonfield (N.J.) Meeting discovered two swastikas spray-painted on trees located on…

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Quakers globally respond to war in Ukraine

Many Quaker groups condemned Russia’s February 24 invasion of Ukraine and called for support of all those impacted by the…

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ESR launches Congregational Leadership Center

Earlham School of Religion (ESR), with a million-dollar grant from the Lilly Endowment, is establishing the Quaker Center for Transformational…

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Court refuses to reinstate Quaker practices at New York’s Green Haven Prison

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit issued a ruling on October 18 that denies a preliminary injunction…

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Quaker Heritage Scenic Byway launched in southwest Ohio

Beginning around 1800, large numbers of Quakers, disturbed by slavery in the Carolinas, migrated north and west to free territories.…

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