Latin America and the Caribbean

Circles of Light 2021 took place on October 5. This annual, unique virtual gala for the benefit of URI brings together our global community to participate and celebrate URI’s network around the world.

See photos and stories of how the global URI community celebrated the International Day of Peace this year.

In Argentina, the members of Bridge Builder CC  participated in a beautiful interfaith activity with young people on June 30th. They are raising awareness and appreciation of diversity among children and youth. They visit schools and clubs offering the possibility to enjoy the richness of religious diversity.

Rosa Delia Quïzhpe Global Trustee, member of CC Samay, from Saraguro, Ecuador shares a beautiful message of care and offering to Mother Earth. 

On June 21, the members of CC Quinaroes (a URI member group in Venezuela) celebrated in La Laguna de Urao, a sacred Indigenous site. They celebrated the arrival of the summer solstice for the northern hemisphere.

On the weekend of June 19 to 21, 2021 the celebration of the winter solstice is expected in the south of the continent, so members of CC Coemati (women, children and youth) went to the field to harvest tomatoes and hot peppers or chili. 

CCs and the trustees of Latin America and Caribbean Region Celebrated the International Invironmental Day. 

Last Thursday, May 27, 2021, the closing of an uninterrupted year of webinars led by the different Cooperation Circles in the region was held.

Today is a great day of joy and jubilation since with my lifelong neighbor Celia Primorak (focolare movement) and with the company and guidance of our priest Father Daniel Segovia we were able to perform for the first time, in the city de Tres Isletas "The first prayer meeting for Christian unity", together with the pastors, representatives of the different churches in our city.

The Institute Hispano of Buddhists Studies (IEBH, in Spanish) is pleased to invite you to the Hispanic Celebration of International Buddha Day 2021. Once a year we meet representatives, practitioners and people related to the different schools of Buddhism to celebrate the International Day of the Buddha, in order to unify efforts in the dissemination of his teaching. We celebrate that we can count on the invaluable knowledge of the path to liberation from suffering as discovered and expounded by the Buddha, and that we can be part of this transmission for the benefit of many.