EMES: Europe and Middle East Section

FWCC EMES is the collective body for Quaker meetings in Europe and the Middle East. All individual members of yearly meetings and groups affiliated with EMES are members of FWCC.

Representatives from the yearly meetings and affiliated groups normally meet each Easter for the EMES Annual Meeting.

What's New

• QPSW and FWCC are seeking to appoint a Representative, Global Economic Issues for the QUNO Office Geneva from January 2009. See the noticeboard for more details.

• American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) have a vacancy for the post of Regional Director for the Middle East. Closing date is 30th Septemeber. See www.afsc.org and Jobs at AFSC for more details.

• Occupied with Nonviolence - A Palestinian Woman speaks, by Jean Zaru. A moving account of a Friend's lifetime witness to justice and reconciliation.

• Conflict in Georgia - Quakers in Tblisi respond to the crisis and ask Friends round the world to help

• Among Friends No. 111, Summer 2008
• Vienna Gathering Epistle, March 2008
  
• 2007 Annual Report, March 2008
  

Find Your Local Meeting

Our map of meetings lists all Quaker meetings in Europe and the Middle East.

You can also join fill in the enquirers' form for information on Quakers in Europe and the Middle East.

Calendar

For details see the full calendar

• German Yearly Meeting 30 October 2008 to 02 November 2008
• QCEA/QPSW Conference, Brussels: 05 December 2008 to 07 December 2008
• Grenztreffen CH-D-F 06 March 2009 to 08 March 2009
• Central European Gathering 29 May 2009 to 01 June 2009
• German Yearly Meeting 15 October 2009 to 18 October 2009

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