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Leaders of Quaker international organisations gather and reflect

9th December 2021

2021

Eleven leaders from seven international Quaker organisations met at Friends House London and online for three days in early December. They included our incoming and outgoing Directors in New York (Sarah Clarke and Andrew Tomlinson) and in Geneva (Nozizwe Madlala-Routledge and Jonathan Woolley). The leaders wrote: “We know that a just and peaceful world is possible, and that by working alongside one another we bring it closer than if we work alone.  We seek relationships of trust and collaboration between Quaker organisations, bringing the strengths of each to the work we are all called to.”

Read the Epistle of the gathering here.

Photo credit: Joe Jones.

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