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• UK recognition of Palestine: a first step to right a historic wrong

  21 September 2025

  Quakers in Britain welcomes the announcement by our government today to formally recognise the State of Palestine.

• Faith leaders call on government to 'make polluters pay' ahead of COP30 as Quakers co-host climate vigil

  18 September 2025

  As the UK prepares for crucial climate finance talks in the run-up to COP30, faith leaders have urged the government to make polluters and the ultra-wealthy pay for the damage caused by climate change.

• Quakers join international campaign to stop foreign complicity in Israel's illegal settlement project

  16 September 2025

  Quakers in Britain has joined more than 80 civil society organisations in a new campaign, Stop Trade with Settlements.

• Quakers join UK churches in urgent call to pray for peace in the Middle East

  15 September 2025

  Quakers in Britain are joining faith-based organisations across the UK in inviting churches to unite in praying for peace in the Middle East, amid escalating violence in Israel and Palestine

• Quakers denied intervention in court challenge over faith rights in terror law case

  11 September 2025

  Quakers in Britain has been refused permission to give evidence in a landmark legal challenge to the UK government's proscription of Palestine Action as a terrorist group.

• Quakers hold peaceful worship outside arms fair profiting from war and genocide

  10 September 2025

  Quakers worshipped peacefully outside the Defence and Security Equipment International (DSEI) arms fair at London's ExCeL Centre yesterday, in protest at how the UK enables war profiteers.

• Quakers apply to intervene in Judicial Review of the proscription of Palestine Action

  8 September 2025

  Quakers in Britain has applied to intervene in the judicial review of the proscription of Palestine Action as a terrorist organisation, saying the ban has undermined their freedom of religion.

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