“It was a new beginning for the life of the people here,” writes URI leader Abraham Karickam about the very first observation of the International Day of Peace by his URI community in Kerala State, Southern India.



This event awakened the awareness in people in our village in India that they could be part of creating peace for the whole world, and “now that we know it, we have to do it!”

Millions of people in Pakistan were reached during the URI MCC Pakistan fourth annual International Day of Peace observation. “Photographers and press reporters from 10 different dailies and TV channels covered our event in Multan,” reports Fr. James Channan.  

Betsy Stang writes from the US: “Today HH Dalai Lama came to Woodstock on the International Day of Peace and spoke about the need for deep interfaith understanding and how there are jewels in all traditions.” 

Join us in appreciating all those communities who have come together to raise up the International Day of Peace in a circle around the Earth. Click on locations below for stories, reports and pictures of URI participation in making September 21, 2006 a BRILLIANT DAY.
  
Kerala, India

Multan, Pakistan

Woodstock, New York, US

San Francisco, California, USA

Taos, New Mexico, USA

Indigenous Expression, USA

UN – High-Level Conference on Interfaith Cooperation for Peace

UN - Program by and for 800 Youth

Manila, Philippines

Cebu City, Philippines

Lahore, Pakistan

Muzzaffar Gahr, Pakistan

Gyeonggju, Seoul & Daejon City, Korea

Amman, Jordan IrisWomen CC

Campinas Brasil

Amman, Jordan, JIA CC

Buenos Aires, Argentina

Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Maputo, Mozambique

Six locations in Malawi

Kampala, Uganda 

Charlotte, North Carolina, USA