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• Quakers across Wales cut bureaucracy to realise Quaker vision/Crynwyr yng Nghymru yn symleiddio’u strwythurau er mwyn gwireddu gweledigaeth Grynwrol

  23 January 2023

  In a bid to revitalise their community by simplifying governance, Quakers across Wales and Southern Marches have agreed to become one charity/Mewn ymgais i adfywio eu cymuned trwy symleiddio'u strwythurau, mae Crynwyr ar draws Cymru a'r Gororau Deheuol wedi cytuno i ddod ynghŷd fel un elusen.

• Quakers urge UK Foreign Secretary to consider signing the nuclear prohibition treaty

  20 January 2023

  On the second anniversary of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW), Christian peace organisations are calling on the UK government to back the ban on the weapons.

• “How can we speak truth to power?” ask young Quakers

  17 January 2023

  Young Quakers from across the country are invited to examine how to release the energy of their spirituality to speak truth to power.

• Public Order Bill poses new threat to protest rights

  17 January 2023

  The government has further strengthened its Public Order Bill as it passes into the Lords, offering the police powers to shut protests down pre-emptively.

• Quaker community born of lockdown marks 1001 nights of online worship

  10 January 2023

  Unlike Scheherazade's husband, Quakers attending Lighthouse Epilogue are unlikely to execute anyone. But something in the online meeting has kept them coming back for the mythical 1001 nights, with many more to come.
  

• Quakers call on the UK government to stop new Cumbrian coal mine

  16 December 2022

  More than 450 church leaders and Christian environmental campaigners have signed a letter calling on Rishi Sunak and Michael Gove to rethink a coal mine which received the go-ahead last week.

• Quakers send MPs chocolate and a climate wish list

  16 December 2022

  MPs have been sent a Christmas wish list and treat urging them contribute to the fund compensating for unavoidable climate impacts agreed at COP27.
  

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