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Salter Lecture 2025: Abimbola Johnson calls for a pause in policing
10 June 2025
At this year's Salter Lecture, barrister and racial justice advocate Abimbola Johnson invited her audience to reimagine policing through a Quaker lens of reflection, restraint, and accountability.
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Twelve new nuclear submarines will not keep us safe, Quakers say
3 June 2025
Quakers in Britain has criticised the UK government's new Strategic Defence Review, saying it prepares the country for more war instead of investing in peace.
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Quakers call for tougher taxes on oil and gas to tackle climate crisis
2 June 2025
Quakers in Britain have urged the UK Government to go beyond the current windfall tax and take stronger action on oil and gas companies.
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Swarthmore Lecture 2025 explores how Quakers are called to live in community
28 May 2025
The call to live in community - faithfully, vulnerably, and across difference - was the central theme of the 2025 Swarthmore Lecture, delivered by Emily Provance on 24 May.
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Quakers first British church to state belief that genocide underway in Gaza
27 May 2025
At their annual gathering this weekend, Quakers in Britain became the first British church to state their belief that the Israeli government is committing genocide in Gaza.
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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.