In an earlier blog piece, we shared the text of a statement from Northern Friends Peace Board made shortly after the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945. It was as clear then as it is to us today that nuclear weapons are both morally abhorrent and certaintly not a route to peace. For those … Read more
NFPB members gathered in Nottingham and online on 1 March for our first meeting of the year, after a week in which issues of war and peace, diplomacy and international politics could not be ignored. Military spending was a focus during our morning session. Russell Whiting joined us to speak about the issue and about … Read more
At our meeting in Sheffield at the start of March, NFPB members heard from a member of the staff team with particular responsibility for the Ecumenical Accompaniment Programme for Palestine and Israel. They described the challenges that programme continues to face, as well as the advocacy work that Quakers have undertaken in calling for a … Read more
– a brief update of recent activities. Whilst Covid is still with us, we are moving out of the pandemic patterns of working and gathering, and this autumn is a typically busy one. NFPB meetings Following our successful hybrid/blended meeting in June, a further meeting for NFPB members took place in late September. The reduced … Read more
NFPB is one of nearly 150 faith communities and organisations that have signed an interfaith statement, released today as the first Meeting of the States Parties to the UN Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW) formally gets under way in Vienna. The statement reflects that :“We gather at a time when the threat … Read more
The war in Ukraine has had a devastating humanitarian impact. … At the same time as the war grinds on in and the brutality continues, preparations are under way for a very different event in central Europe; the first meeting of the states parties to the UN Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW), from 21-23 June.
Celebrating one year The UN Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW) entered into force on 22 January 2021, with the period since then seeing further progress in a number of respects. (see https://www.banthebomb.org/campaign/nuclear-ban-tpnw/). Plans are in hand for campaigners to mark this anniversary. We have produced the poster below for Friends to print … Read more
These past few days have seen a flurry of activity, to mark the entry into legal effect of the UN Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons. NFPB members and Quakers around the country joined with others in creating visual messages of support, both on buildings and through digital media. Other activities have ranged from … Read more