Quakers help launch new ethical money resource

Quakers in Britain and the Ecumenical Council for Corporate Responsibility (ECCR) have launched a new website to help ‘individual believers’ and church groups tackle ethical and spiritual decisions about their use of money. The site, Your Faith Your Finance, covers issues such as banking and shopping and uses tools such as case studies and parables…

A child in a refugee camp in Lebanon, near the Syrian border. Photo: CAFOD/CC

Quakers seek Syrian peace through nonviolence

Quakers in Britain are urging governments to reject violence and find a peaceful solution to the crisis in Syria by adopting nonviolent tools for conflict resolution. Helen Drewery, general secretary of Quaker Peace & Social Witness, said today that “Quakers see war as wrong because we value every human being so highly that killing them…

The Nayler logo in white text on a grey background

At the heart of Quaker work

Quaker Peace and Social Witness Spring Conference By Tim Herrick, Sam Robinson, and Sue Smith The Quaker Peace & Social Witness (QPSW) conference (25-27/03/2011) was an excellent opportunity to learn more about the work of this important Quaker body, to meet some of the people at the heart of its activities, and to learn more…

A tall tower with older buildings in the foreground in Tripoli, Libya.

Quaker statements on Libya

Quakers in Britain and the US have made public statements highlighting their concerns about the violence in Libya. While Quakers in Britain have written an open letter to the UK prime minister, American Friends Service Committee has made a statement making demands of the Libyan government, coalition forces, the United Nations, the African Union, and…