The Latest - September 2010

From my corner to the World!

Lines to express images of Global Youth Culture

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Volunteering for Peace

Day 23: Volunteers bring supplies to a tent community in Palestine and find a sense of their own purpose.

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URI's Key Accomplishments

URI’s ten year anniversary year, 2010, is moving into its last quarter. We have acquired authority and humility in our ten years of growth. We have embraced grassroots leadership, friendship, sharing the sacred, local leadership that meets local need, and we have nurtured a new reality where religious differences become a source of respect and mutual cooperation. I would like to share URI’s Key Accomplishments from my perspective. If you have more please add your comment .

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The Warm Heart of Africa

Day 22: Zachary Levine brings laptops, sewing machines and hope to young leaders and entrepreneurs in one of Africa’s least developed countries.

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Finland's Golden Rule Award 2010

Finland's Interfaith Dialogue Network presents Finland's President Tarja Halonen with the 2010 Kultainen sääntö- palkinto, the Golden Rule Award.

Bill Swing visits Denver cathedral

Bishop Swing took time out of his busy schedule to spend a day at Saint John’s Cathedral (Episcopal) in the Mile-High city of Denver, Colorado on September 19.  The Dean of the Cathedral,... Read more...

Swapping Cultures

Day 21: Should “Dr. Who” be a heart or a diamond? British and Saudi youth designed a set of playing cards to share each others' cultures.

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Tools for Building Peace Among Religions

Our latest live chat for young leaders featured guest speaker, Vanessa Gomez Brake, from Pace e Bene, an organization dedicated to transforming lives and the world througn nonviolence education, resources and action. Read on to learn more about resources for peacebuilding and nonviolence that were shared, and for ways to engage in peacebuilding work that were discussed by leaders from URI's global youth network.

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Jordan to Host Conference on Islam and the Environment

Arwa Aburawa, a journalist with the Green Prophet, reports on a conference taking place in Jordan this month. The Green Prophet is a URI Cooperation Circle based in the Middle East.  Jordan... Read more...

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No More Nukes

Day 20: Top scientific, political, religious and academic minds are creating a new movement to save the world from itself.

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