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• 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.

• Stand in solidarity with Shadi Khoury

  3 September 2025

  Update: 8 September 2025. Despite no evidence and consistent denials, Shadi Khoury convicted by Israeli military court on unsubstantiated charges of participating in a protest. Sentencing is scheduled for 15 December.

• Merchants of death relocate after two years of protest

  2 September 2025

  One of the UK's biggest arms fairs is to relocate from Telford to Birmingham following two years of persistent protest.

• Quakers condemn dangerous Ramallah Friends School incursion

  28 August 2025

  On Tuesday, 26 August, the Israeli army carried out a dangerous incursion outside the gates of the Quaker Ramallah Friends School in the occupied West Bank.

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