FWCC-Europe & Middle East Section
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FWCC EMES connects Quakers around Europe and the Middle East. EMES holds an Annual Meeting in late spring/early summer.
How are organisations in Germany supporting conscientious objectors to access asylum? How are Quakers in Georgia supporting people from Russia and Ukraine who are refusing to fight? How is it to refuse to fight? What are the impacts on people’s lives? See ow.ly/80BP50Tq70s
The theme is Living the spirit of Ubuntu: Responding with hope to God’s call to cherish creation – and one another taken from the FWCC World Plenary Meeting held in South Africa and Online in August. Visit the EMES website to register for this meeting for worship.
Paula Christophersen recalls how, when she first walked into a Quaker meeting as a "spiritual but not religious" person just over half a decade ago, "It almost felt as if... this faith I was discovering fell cleanly through my head and into my heart." quakerspeak.com/video/my-first…
The theme is Living the spirit of Ubuntu: Responding with hope to God’s call to cherish creation – and one another taken from the FWCC World Plenary Meeting held in South Africa and Online in August. Visit the EMES website to register for this meeting for worship.
Last week, around 500 Quakers from 53 countries met in South Africa and online for the #WorldPlenary2024 🌍 read the epistle and find out more at fwcc.world/epistle-of-wor…
