Guanajuato, MEXICO- URI Executive Director Charles Gibbs will be featured in a recently released, groundbreaking book “Cultures of participation at Work in Cuba and the US.”

Dear Friends,

Greetings of love and peace.

Today we are celebrating the 7th anniversary of the URI Charter Signing, the 7th anniversary of URI's birth!

Whereever in the world you are and whatever you do this day, I pray to take a moment to celebrate this event.

For seven years, URI has been a light in the world dedicated to promote enduring, daily interfaith cooperation, to end religiously motivated violence and to create cultures of peace, justice and healing for the Earth and all living beings.

Each URI Global Council Trustee and Global Staff member, all those who are participating in URI Cooperation Circles, and everyone in the world who supports the principles of URI — you are part of that light.

So, pause for a moment today. Feel the light. Give thanks for the light. Be the light we wish to see in the world.

Thank you.

Love,
Charles

Congratulations to all of you who are graduating and to the rest of you who also helped pay the price of academic success - by providing the graduates with personal support, by teaching them, by building up the community life of Stanford, by covering tuitions – congratulations to everyone involved.  This is your time, your moment for successful completion.

  Our gala fundraiser to celebrate and support the work of URI’s network of Cooperation Circles took place in February 2007 high above the city lights of San Francisco.  At our annual “Circles of Light” dinner we honored the philanthropist Richard Goldman for his support of URI and of the environment. Following are the remarks of both Bishop Swing and Mr. Goldman as they acknowledget each other and the United Religions Initiative.