Welcome, and we are re the satoe wr thoswho mi akertu so that part of quakerism i belong to, we call it a Friends Meeting rather than a Friends Church although there is such a thing as a Friends Church, and we worship in silence. So we sit in silence and wait upon the spirits and then people might speak out of the silence as they are moved by the spirit. So in an hour we might get a few messages. And then we just kind of return to the silence and stay in that space. We dont have ordained clergy, we all take responsibility and we do everything by committee which often happens in churches. And in a quaker community, what would be some of the other activities are ministries that might occur there . Theres always been a close relationship in our tradition between our faith and our actions, particularly work in the world related to social justice, the environment, and so forth. So theres a lot of work, we have committees to do that. We also have a worship and Ministry Committee and a Pastor
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Online have their sentences increased. Russia bans flights to georgia after clashes in tbilisi. Thousands of protesters have gathered outside parliament for a second night. And, eltonjohn receives frances highest civilian honour, the legion dhonneur, from president macron. President trump has confirmed that he called off a military strike against iran with minutes to spare after deciding that too many human lives would be lost. Mr trump tweeted that the us had been cocked and loaded, but hes now facing criticism from democrats for revealing details of the plan. The attack was to be a response to the shooting down of an unmanned us drone by iran earlier this week. It happened in a volatile region that is a major supply route for a third of the worlds oil. Tehran says the drone entered iranian airspace, but the us maintains it was shot down in International Airspace over the strait of hormuz. Heres our north america editorjon sopel. In iran they are celebrating taking out of the sky a 13
Against iran last night with minutes to spare after deciding that too many human lives would be lost. The attack had been planned in response to the shooting down of an unmanned us drone by iran earlier this week. Our north america editor jon sopel reports. In iran they are celebrating taking out of the sky a 130 million us drone the latest escalation in tensions between washington and tehran. Today, on iranian tv, the results of their handiwork were being shown off. America has no shortage of military assets in the region but the anticipated retaliation never came. It turns out military strikes had been ordered. But at the last moment donald trump had a change of mind. He confirmed this on twitter this morning but now a rather different account from the president. The planes werent even in the air, so weapons couldnt have been locked and loaded. Were planes in the air . We were about ready to go. No, but they would have been pretty soon, and things would have happened to a point where