Politics and Economics - period ended 12.15.2006

Politics and Economics/Religious Faith/Silence/Quiet/Bar bid prompts concern/East Anglian Daily Times/East Anglia/England/UK/11-Dec-06//...In a report to the committee, the Quakers claim this could intrude on their hour of complete silence from 9.30am - breaking the joint concentration of worshippers in their “deep corporate communion of the spirit with God” - and as well as disturb the quiet spoken ministry in the second hour. ...

Politics and Economics/Plain Speaking/Quaker Peace Centre/Madlala-Routledge, Nozizwe/African minister ends decade of denial on Aids/Telegraph.co.uk/London/England/UK/11-Dec-06//Now Nozizwe Madlala-Routledge, a plain-speaking 55-year-old Quaker, is being feted as a heroine by health campaigners, Aids sufferers and much of South Africa's media, for daring to end a decade of denial on the disease by the ruling African National Congress. ...