Yearly Meeting Statements
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Yearly Meeting Statements:
From time to time, Quakers in Aotearoa/New Zealand have found it necessary to issue statements on topical issues of social concern. These arise from our long-held Testimonies of peace, integrity, simplicity, equality, sustainability and community, and are often prepared at Yearly Meetings. They may be published as embodying the current view of the national body.
- WALKING IN THE LIGHT 2024, A Quaker statement of commitment and inclusion
- QUAKER CALL TO ACTION AFTER COVID-19, June 2020, a vision for the future
- LETTER TO FEDERATION OF ISLAMIC ASSOCIATIONS, March 2019, sent from Yearly Meeting expressing our condolences and support to the Muslim community after the loss of 50 lives on Friday 15 March 2019 in a terrorist attack on two Christchurch mosques.
- LEST WE FORGET 2014 – Statement from the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers), Yearly Meeting of Aotearoa New Zealand, Te Hāhi Tūhauwiri, May 2014. On the eve of commemorations of World War I, Quakers in Aotearoa New Zealand are concerned that history is not reinvented to glorify war.
- ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY, 2000
- TOWARDS TRANSFORMATIVE JUSTICE, 1999
- BI-CULTURAL ISSUES, 1988
- SOCIAL CONCERN, 1998
- AFFIRMATION OF SAME SEX RELATIONSHIPS, 1992
- VIOLENCE, 1987
- PEACE, 1987
Monthly Meeting may issue Statements recording their position. Here is an example:
CONFLICT IN IRAN & SYRIA: Letter from Northern MM to Parliamentary Leaders, October 2014