Christmas messages – December 24 2020
Here is the last AWPS Newsletter with reflections on the Christmas Season from a number of AWPS Friends. https://mailchi.mp/ccb1c56c1c8e/christmas-messages-from-friends-around-the-region
FWCC Quaker Conversation : Gerry Yokota and Jo Vallentine speak on What is Mine to do?
FWCC Quaker Conversation in partnership with AWPS What is Mine to do? Sunday 28th November 2020 Did you miss out on FWCC Quaker Conversation Number 6. Gerry Yokota from Japan and Jo Vallentine from Australia spoke beautifully about how being a Quaker is woven in to their everyday life and work and activism as they [...]
December 2020 E Newsletter
The December E News has just been published. Use this link to read current news about Quakers in the Asia West Pacific Region.
FWCC Quaker Conversations – #6 What is mine to do?
About the Quaker Conversation Webinar Series In its role of providing connective tissue, FWCC is offering a series of Quaker Conversation sessions to any Friends who want to listen and learn and contribute to concerns important to Friends, particularly during this time of grief and reflection and, transformation. Session 6 Please join us on November [...]
Reminder to sign up to World Quaker Day webinar.
World Quaker Day is coming up this coming Sunday 4th October. Join Friends from around the Asia West Pacific Section in a conversation with Jonathan Woolley and Lindsey Fielder Cook from the Quaker United Nations Office. Read about this in the latest newsletter.
Friends World Committee for Consultation (FWCC) Sustainability Conference 22 February 2020
How does God call us to act? An Online Conference with Friends Worldwide The conference was organised and hosted by the FWCC World Office in London and over 300 Friends from all over the world participated by zoom. A group of Friends from Britain Yearly Meeting facilitated the conference, listened to the spoken ministry and [...]
Listening behind the noise: Quaker United Nations Office and the international climate change negotiations
In 2011, QUNO began attending negotiation sessions at the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). This included talking with civil society and diplomatic communities to explore what role, if any, it could serve in supporting the process. Encouraged on various levels—including by a diplomat calling for Quaker support, having witnessed earlier QUNO work—it [...]
Corona Virus Threat in the Philippines
Compiled by Boni Quirog from the Bohol Quaker worship group, with reports from CNN Philippines. 7 February 2020 – As of this writing, there are already 215 persons being watched within the Philippines for being suspected of Corona Virus infection; 7 of these are in Bohol. But wait, being a PUI (person under investigation) does [...]
Part II: Sustaining Friendly Connections
Part 1 – making Friendly Connections was published in the April2019 Newsletter When Friends in the Asia-West Pacific Section spend time together – in person and online – how do we maintain and strengthen those friendships? 1. We organise and attend events that support and encourage each other: When I was asked to write about [...]
FWCC Central Executive Committee 2019
Central Executive Committee (CEC), Friends World Committee for Consultation (FWCC) Toronto, Canada. June 2019 Report by Ronis Chapman, Asia West Pacific Section Secretary. FWCC is registered as a charity in the U.K. and the Board of Trustees of the charity is made up of Friends from around the world. In the Quaker world the Board is [...]