the friend online
02 October 2009


Welcome to our international edition!

Here you can find our latest articles about Quaker faith and action outside Britain as well as features on the
international Family of Friends.

Just click on any of the country links to the right to start exploring and if there's nothing about your country here yet, why not write for us yourself!

Country of the week: Zimbabwe

Microcredit in Ghana - 03 April 2009
Jennifer Kavanagh and Isebail Mackinnon
Iceland can - 03 April 2009
Stephen Cox
News round-up - 03 April 2009
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Irish Quakers ask: why violence? - 27 March 2009
Oliver Robertson
Where is Britain? - 20 March 2009
Anya Whiteside
Israel-Palestine - 20 March 2009
Eva I Pinthus
Meeting for meditation? - 20 March 2009
Nick Bagnall
News round-up - 20 March 2009
Quakers develop peace links - 20 March 2009
Oliver Robertson
Aid agencies expelled from Sudan - 13 March 2009
Oliver Robertson
News round-up - 13 March 2009
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Climate change: a call to action (it’s up to us!) - 27 February 2009
Joe Thwaites
The future of the world - 27 February 2009
Alison Prout
‘Big countries: few Quakers’ and the tyranny of distance - 27 February 2009
Oliver Robertson
Coventry and Dresden celebrate a historic partnership - 20 February 2009
Paul Oestreicher
Israel and Palestine: are we part of the problem? - 20 February 2009
Lindsey Fielder Cook
Letters - 20 February 2009
Black thirteenth - 20 February 2009
Ernest Hall
News round-up - 20 February 2009
Congolese Quaker partnership - 20 February 2009
Hannah Morrow
Indian doctor awaits justice - 20 February 2009
Oliver Robertson
Comment - 06 February 2009
Candia Barman and Jez Smith
News round-up - 06 February 2009
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Responding to Conflict in the Middle East - 30 January 2009
Michael Eccles
In the steps of … - 30 January 2009
Warren Bardsley
Comment - 30 January 2009
Jess Pasteiner & Sarah Freeman
‘Heeding God’s call’ – the peace churches link up - 30 January 2009
Lizz Roe
News round-up - 30 January 2009
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q-eye - 23 January 2009
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Comment - 23 January 2009
Judy Kirby and Chuck Fager
News round-up - 23 January 2009
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Peace activist seizes 'illegal' dates from supermarket - 23 January 2009
Oliver Robertson
Is this really what you meant to happen? - 16 January 2009
Judith Baker & Gillian Ashmore
European Quakers seek way forward on climate change - 16 January 2009
Gerald Conyngham
News round-up - 16 January 2009
Oliver Robertson
Letters - 09 January 2009
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Empowerment through women’s literacy - 09 January 2009
John Lampen
News roundup - 09 January 2009
Oliver Robertson
Kenya: where are we now? - 09 January 2009
Eden Grace
Comment - 09 January 2009
Judy Kirby and Clare-Marie White
An interview with Juan - 12 December 2008
Anne Hosking
Cuban artist exhibits at Friends House - 12 December 2008
Rowena Loverance
George Fox and same gender partnership - 05 December 2008
Christopher Bagley
News round-up - 05 December 2008
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Geneva Declaration success - 28 November 2008
Oliver Robertson
News round-up - 28 November 2008
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Letters - 21 November 2008
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News round-up - 21 November 2008
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The plot twists of 4 November - 14 November 2008
C Wess Daniels
He’s not the messiah… - 14 November 2008
Chuck Fager
Letters - 14 November 2008
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Comment - 14 November 2008
Trish Carn & Barbara Tonge, Eva Hopwood and Tim Baynes
A new story on climate change? - 14 November 2008
Laurie Michaelis
Calls for fairer global financial structure - 14 November 2008
Oliver Robertson
News round-up - 14 November 2008
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Climate change and human rights - 07 November 2008
Jennifer Rosenberg
Results of war - 07 November 2008
Oliver Robertson
News round-up - 24 October 2008
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Yesterday’s witness – sixty years on - 10 October 2008
Jill Inskip
UK children inadequately protected, says UN - 10 October 2008
Rachel Brett
News round-up - 10 October 2008
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Conciliation behind the scenes - 03 October 2008
Oliver Robertson
Irish Quakers’ lives revealed - 26 September 2008
Judy Kirby
News round-up - 26 September 2008
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Letters - 12 September 2008
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News - round-up - 12 September 2008
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Letters - 05 September 2008
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Comment - 05 September 2008
Susan Groves & Martin Wilkinson
News round-up - 05 September 2008
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Living adventurously – of no fixed abode - 29 August 2008
Jo Scott
Convergent Friends: remixing tradition and imagination - 29 August 2008
C Wess Daniels
The long roots of Georgia’s conflict - 29 August 2008
Oliver Robertson
Finland Yearly Meeting - 29 August 2008
David Penn
News round-up - 29 August 2008
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News round-up - 22 August 2008
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A forgotten success story - 15 August 2008
Geoffrey Carnall
News round-up - 15 August 2008
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Lost in translation in a Quaker context - 01 August 2008
Jaana Erkkilä
Letters - 01 August 2008
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News round-up - 01 August 2008
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‘We’ve seen a ground shift every day’ - 25 July 2008
Jez Smith
Facing down the Obama-crunch - 25 July 2008
Oliver Robertson
News round-up - 25 July 2008
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With Friends like these - 18 July 2008
Oliver Robertson
FUM Triennial news - 18 July 2008
Oliver Robertson
Tough times for war resisters in Canada despite parliament’s help - 18 July 2008
Jez Smith
Letters - 11 July 2008
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Comment - 11 July 2008
Anne Bancroft & Alison Leonard
Challenging statements - 11 July 2008
Roger Sawkins
Bad Pyrmont – a Meeting house in the heart of Germany - 11 July 2008
Ute Caspers
A Quaker who became a master of investigative broadcasting - 04 July 2008
Stephen Taylor
Friends United Meeting, Kenyan homosexuality and ‘liberal’ yearly meetings - 04 July 2008
David Zarembka
Letters - 04 July 2008
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Comment - 04 July 2008
John Myhill & Roger Hill
News round-up - 04 July 2008
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The Committee for New Quaker Clichés - 27 June 2008
Chuck Fager
Letters - 27 June 2008
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A visit to America - 27 June 2008
Oliver Robertson
News round-up - 27 June 2008
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Have Alternatives to Violence, will travel - 20 June 2008
Matthew Naumann
The plight of Colombian palm oil workers - 20 June 2008
Rachel Boyd
Letters - 20 June 2008
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Can hope and history rhyme? - 13 June 2008
Susan Robson
Comment - 13 June 2008
Jez Smith & Roger Sawtell
The last respectable prejudice - 13 June 2008
Diane Brewster
News round-up - 13 June 2008
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Facilitation in Omagh - 06 June 2008
Olive Hobson
Welcome to Friends in Georgia - 06 June 2008
Libby Perkins & Julia Ryberg
Letters - 06 June 2008
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News round-up - 06 June 2008
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Over a hundred countries ban the bombs - 06 June 2008
Oliver Robertson
Eyewitness to the Chinese earthquake - 30 May 2008
Patrick Wood
In Fair Palestine: a story of Romeo and Juliet - 18 April 2008
Rob Johnson
News round-up - 18 April 2008
Denise C Gabuzda & Irenée Rajaona-Horne
Behind the Spanish Barricades - 11 April 2008
Debbie Langdon-Davies
Northern Uganda, peace process and the International Criminal Court - 28 March 2008
Michael Bartlet
News round-up - 28 March 2008
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Comment - 14 March 2008
Stevie Krayer & Michael Langford
The catastrophe in Iraq - 14 March 2008
Layla Al Roomi
Iglesia de los Amigos Caqeros - 14 March 2008
Kenya Casanova
Building links with Congo YM - 14 March 2008
Oliver Robertson
Peasants’ long march - 16 November 2007
Kuldip Nayar
QPSW conference - 16 November 2007
Dana Adler, West Kent Area Meeting
The Light of Christ in Romania - 09 November 2007
Richard Seebohm
Meeting for Sufferings - round-up - 09 November 2007
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News round-up - 12 October 2007
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News round-up - 05 October 2007
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Operating ‘at the extreme end’ - 05 October 2007
Oliver Robertson
News round-up - 28 September 2007
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News round-up - 07 September 2007
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News round-up - 31 August 2007
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Deportations to the Congo – truth, integrity and the threat to life and liberty - 24 August 2007
Margaret Johnston
Aboriginal rights under attack - 24 August 2007
Alan Clayton
cover - 24 August 2007
Finding the prophetic voice - 17 August 2007
Lizz Roe
Comment - 17 August 2007
Laurie Michaelis & Jenny Moy
Pre-Triennial impressions from Moyallon - 17 August 2007
Can Quakers be prophets? - 17 August 2007
Judy Kirby
cover - 17 August 2007
Friends all set for prophesy - 10 August 2007
Jez Smith
Rewriting today for a better future - 15 June 2007
Jez Smith
Colombian conscientious objectors receive Quaker fillip - 15 June 2007
Oliver Robertson
Paul: the resurrection - 08 June 2007
Rowena Loverance
Satyagraha – an opera about Gandhi - 27 April 2007
Robert Clark
Forced migrants - 27 April 2007
Chris Gwyntopher
Patterdale earth - 27 April 2007
Jill Segger
Deepening crisis in Darfur & Chad - 27 April 2007
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Harnessing outrage - 27 April 2007
Chas Raws
Quaker involvement brought to life - 20 April 2007
A Friendly farewell - 11 April 2007
Nick Bagnall
Deluded twice? - 11 April 2007
Annette White
A bicentenary to remember? - 11 April 2007
Chas Raws
On the road, round the world - 06 April 2007
Alison Leonard, Wirral & Chester MM
The Proverbs of Guyana explained: a personal journey - 23 March 2007
Joyce Trotman, Purley & Sutton MM
Old justice: Gacaca - 23 March 2007
‘Mother-of-Grace’: the Quietism of Madame Guyon - 16 March 2007
Elaine Pryce
QPSW and the International Development Committee inquiry into ‘Development Assistance and the Occupied Palestinian Territories’ - 16 March 2007
Floresca Karanàsou, Middle East programme manager, Quaker Peace and Social Witness
Eliminating the Ayatollah - 09 March 2007
Geoffrey Carnall
Woolman’s Witness - 02 March 2007
Joy Paul
New ways of speaking our truth today - 02 March 2007
Alec Davison, Susan Seymour, and Geoffrey Durham
News round-up - 02 March 2007
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Finding Friend - 23 February 2007
Laurie Kruczek
Tom Fox, Friends’ ecclesiology and the ‘Quaker wide web’ - 23 February 2007
Chuck Fager
Country of the Week: Latvia - 09 February 2007
Preparing hearts & minds - 09 February 2007
Lee Taylor
International Edition: Supporting HIV Counselling in Kenya - 09 February 2007
William West, Hardshaw East Monthly Meeting
International Edition: Comments on Friends' activities in the Republic of Korea (1960) - 02 February 2007
Arthur [Red] Mitchell
International Edition: 509 messages from Friends in Korea (1973) - 02 February 2007
International Edition: Quakers enter Korea (1953) - 02 February 2007
George W Whiteman
Whittier at 200 - 02 February 2007
Simon Webb
Doomsday Clock moves two minutes closer to midnight - 02 February 2007
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Country of the Week: South Korea - 02 February 2007
International Edition: Letter from Iran - 02 February 2007
Emily Johns
Jack Boag: Quaker scientist and peacemaker - 26 January 2007
G. Gordon Steel
Quakers and the UN Peacebuilding Commission: the beginning of a beautiful friendship? - 26 January 2007
Aletia Dundas
Silence and patience - 19 January 2007
Susie Paskins
Conciliation work in Nagaland - 19 January 2007
Sarah Alldred, Hardshaw East MM
Countries of the Week: Israel & Palestine - 19 January 2007
International Edition: Report from the Middle East - 19 January 2007
Franco Perna
International Edition: Promoting non-violence in the West Bank - 19 January 2007
Gerald Conyngham
International Edition: a visit to the West Bank - 19 January 2007
Alan and Pauline York
International Edition: Multifaith and hope in the West Bank - 19 January 2007
Jane Garrett, Leeds MM & Jenny Bell, West Somerset MM
Sharing the thin places - 12 January 2007
Peter Fishpool
Ending violence - 12 January 2007
Brian Hodkinson
Africa now - 12 January 2007
Theresa Watts
A helpful reminder: guns are bad - 12 January 2007
Caroline Westgate
News round-up - 12 January 2007
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Country of the Week: Madagascar - 12 January 2007
International Edition: Making Terrorism History - 12 January 2007
Anthony Wilson, Staffordshire MM
International Edition: Peaceroots - 12 January 2007
Lorna Watson
Travel dilemmas - 05 January 2007
An inconvenient truth - 05 January 2007
Gwen Prince & Laurie Michaelis
Travel & transport: how far can we go on renewables? - 05 January 2007
Martin Quick
Contraction & convergence – the solution to climate change? - 05 January 2007
David Maxwell, Bedford MM
International Edition: Children of Chernobyl - 26 January 2007
Country of the week: Zimbabwe - 05 January 2007
International edition: Helping young people to deal with the past - 05 January 2007
Diana & John Lampen
International Edition: Researching Quaker ancestors - 05 January 2007
Michael Hargreave


All international articles


Africa: Kenya - Madagascar - Rwanda - South Africa - Zimbabwe

Americas: Bolivia - Canada - USA

Asia/West Pacific: South Korea

Europe*: Austria - Belgium - Denmark - France - Finland - Germany - Ireland - Italy - Latvia - Lebanon - Netherlands - Norway - Spain - Sweden

Middle East: Israel - Lebanon - Palestine

* We're not including Britain in our international index, though of course articles may have been written by Friends in Britain