URI is grateful to Sarah Talcott, URI young adult leader and contact person for the URI Global Youth CC, who developed this activity as part of the Interfaith Leadership Retreat held for young adult interfaith leaders in Cyprus in June 2006. This activity is recommended for URI CCs groups or for any group that comes together from different faith backgrounds to make a positive difference.

Reflections from URI members mourning the passing and celebrating the life of Global Council Trustee, T.D. Singh.

August 29, 2006
Dear Friends,

Greetings of love and peace from Kyoto.

At 8:45 AM on 6 August 1945 the first atom bomb used against a human population exploded over the city of Hiroshima, Japan. In the instant of that explosion, the city was destroyed - unimaginable white heat followed by black radioactive rain. Over 140,000 people would die from the explosion and, within months, from its effects.

Today I walked through the park dedicated to remembering that evil day and to drawing from that evil an unswerving commitment not to revenge but to a peace that will assure that no other human population will ever again experience what the people of Hiroshima and Nagasaki experienced.