News & Reports

 

Uganda Mudslides

affect villages, homes, schools and medical centres some of which are owned and operated by Uganda Yearly Meeting. Present advice is to send contributions towards relief to the Red Cross, who have an office in the area and can oversee distribution of aid. Read more…

 

George Willoughby an activist in Non violence died recently. For more about his life and work see…

 

All India Friends Gathering 2010

 


Philippines Quakers in Sydney

On the evening of 12 January, Boni met Sydney Friends.


Boni Quirog with Robin Walpole

The following day Boni met with Brisbane Friends

 

Friends Peace Teams Projects:

Silver-Treated Ceramic Water Filters in Indonesia 2009

Their Indonesia Initiative

and their Report to the New York YM

Response to the WCC Initial Statement towards and Ecumenical Declaration of Just Peace.

Response from Netherlands Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) to the Initial Statement towards an Ecumenical Declaration of Just Peace of the World Council of Churches

Contribution Of Hoshangabad Friends written Oct 2009

...........They stopped deep tilling of tractors and started experimentations of zero tilling. .......... Read more here

Historic Peace Churches …update in 2009

The Third Historic Peace Churches International Conference met in Solo, Indonesia 2 - 7 December 2007 to consider injustice, religious pluralism and poverty in an Asia context. Gerry Guiton, Dale Hess, Sieneke Martin and Jo Vallentine represented Friends from Australia. more....

Quaker Institute for the Future

Berrett Koehler, a prominent USA book publisher, has agreed to publish the book that the Quaker Institute for the Future team have been working on. The tentative title is Right Relationship: The Hands-On Guide to Building a Whole Earth Economy. It will be available Jan 2009. more....

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