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• Church leaders united in response to Covid-19

  6 April 2020

  Paul Parker, the Recording Clerk for Quakers in Britain, with Church leaders from denominations across Britain and Ireland, have today issued this statement.

• Quakers change plans for Yearly Meeting Gathering

  3 April 2020

  Quakers in Britain have postponed their 2020 Yearly Meeting Gathering. The ongoing public health situation with the COVID-19 pandemic, very sadly, makes it impossible to bring 2,000 people together for this event.

• Crisis prompts call for global ceasefire

  2 April 2020

  As the Coronavirus crisis deepens Quakers are working with allies to speak up for the most vulnerable.

• Quakers #SafeAtHome

  2 April 2020

  As the Coronavirus spreads across the world, the Quaker community is responding with love, prayer and action.

• ​How to #StayAtHome when you have no home

  2 April 2020

  Central Bristol Quakers have donated the kitchen in their meeting house to help feed homeless people made even more vulnerable by the Coronavirus crisis.

• Cancellation of national Quaker events

  16 March 2020

  As the Coronavirus outbreak continues, Quakers in Britain are cancelling four national events planned for March and April.

  Update: They are advising meetings not to gather in person while the current social distancing guidance is in force.

• Quakers continue quiet diplomacy

  11 March 2020

  Generations of Quakers have worked to build peace in areas of violent conflict. Confidentiality is essential therefore the work is little-known. Now a new book, launched this week, Dining with diplomats, praying with gunmen captures the experiences of international conciliation for a new generation of peacemakers.

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