Friends Hong Kong (Quakers)

28/12/2025

We’ve moved! We are now meeting at the Hive Poho on Hong Kong Island. Come visit if you’re around!

https://www.thehivepoho.com/

09/03/2025

First Day School Today!

29/01/2025

The Friends of God (Quakers) are causing holy trouble. Love is power, friends! Proud to be a Quaker today.

https://news.bloomberglaw.com/litigation/quakers-file-suit-to-block-trumps-immigration-raids-in-churches

https://news.bloomberglaw.com/.../quakers-file-suit-to...
"Allowing armed agents near or in places of worship also undermines the Quakers’ central message of pacifism and nonviolence, it says."

"The threat of enforcement deters congregants, especially immigrants, from attending services, the complaint says. Losing members is a substantial burden on the congregation’s religious rights, especially when the “congregants would bring to worship different backgrounds and life experiences,” it says."

"Allowing the raids at or near places of worship violates the Religious Freedom Restoration Act by burdening Quakers’ right to worship communally, the complaint says. It also notes that the government has said that it can achieve its current mission without limiting individuals’ access to places of worship."

"The complaint further says that DHS’s policy is arbitrary and capricious in violation of Administrative Procedure Act, and wasn’t adopted pursuant to APA procedures."

The Department of Homeland Security’s decision to conduct immigration raids in houses of worship violates the First Amendment, a group of Quaker congregations said in a new federal lawsuit challenging the practice.

27/10/2024

Some of the kid's work from First Day School. The theme was the life of Martin Luther King Jr. and the way his life reflected Quaker testimonies.

06/10/2024

Happy World Quaker Day to all our Friends of Peace throughout the world!

31/08/2024

Greetings from Hong Kong Monthly Meeting!

20/12/2021

Here's a podcast recommendation from one of our members:

Wake Up and Choose Divine Violence

This philosophy podcast on Walter Benjamin’s essay “Critique of Violence,” not only poses questions about violence as appertaining to the law and institutions but also the nature of justice and— perhaps most Quakerly— a discussion about the tradition of Jewish Qabala on the “attributes of God” in human beings. Lots of moments and notions that are quite pertinent scattered throughout… even if the vernacular of the discussion may not be to everyone’s taste.

01:09:22 - In this episode we welcome Dr. Ashley Bohrer to discuss Walter Benjamin’s 1921 essay “Critique of Violence”. We talk about the relationship between …

27/09/2021

Join us this Sunday, 4 October, for World Quaker Day! We're set to start at 10.30am, so come early to get a seat.

Friends from the Palmerston North Quaker Meeting in New Zealand will be joining us by Zoom. For the Zoom address, contact [email protected], or join us in person at The Hive, 33 Hillier Street, Sheung Wan.

One week until World Quaker Day! ⌛️

How will you be celebrating on Sunday 3rd October?

Our theme: Resilience and hope: drawing strength from our Quaker faith.

If you're looking for ways to celebrate with your church/worship group/meeting, why not take a look at the resources online https://www.worldquakerday.org/

26/09/2021

"We are called to live ‘in the virtue of that life and power that takes away the occasion of all wars.' Do you faithfully maintain our testimony that war and the preparation for war are inconsistent with the spirit of Christ? Search out whatever in your own way of life may contain the seeds of war. Stand firm in our testimony, even when others commit or prepare to commit acts of violence, yet always remember that they too are children of God."

Quaker Faith and Practice, Advices and Queries 31.

26/09/2021

📖 Today's 1st reading

Matthew 7:1-4

1 Judge not, that ye be not judged.

2 For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged: and with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again.

3 And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye?

4 Or how wilt thou say to thy brother, Let me pull out the mote out of thine eye; and, behold, a beam is in thine own eye?