Our community is working tirelessly to bring peace and justice in all areas of the world regardless of religion. Read stories straight from the organizers.
The co-founders of the Interfaith Mediation Centre, a URI Cooperation Circle from Kaduna Nigeria, West Africa, receive the first Commonwealth Peace Prize.
Meet URI's new Executive Director, Karen Volker - As I step into my new role as URI’s first woman Executive Director, I want to acknowledge and highlight that I have joined a movement filled with remarkable individuals and organizations that harness collective strength to create meaningful impact—from local communities to the global stage.
The Jewish holiday of Hanukkah (also spelled Chanukah or Hanukah) begins on sundown on December 22 of this year and will continue until sundown on the 30th.
Our human community is in a deepening spiral of conflict, and the planet, which sustains us and all life, careens towards climate disaster. How are we people of diverse religions, spiritual expressions and Indigenous traditions throughout the world who comprise URI called to respond?
In Panama, the members of the Mukua Cooperation Circle met to pay tribute to Fany Ávila. This took place three months after her physical disappearance.
We had a hug of reconciliation to represent forgiveness and universal love between the descendants of the Indigenous people and the descendants of the people who came to the land.
Beginning on Friday, November 22, 2019, in the city of Varanasi near the Ganges River, national and international interfaith delegates convened for the 9th URI India National Assembly.
United Religions Initiative (URI), in association with UNESCO Chair for Peace and Intercultural Understanding, Malaviya Centre for Peace Research, organised an interfaith gathering titled “Shanti Sangam: Towards Interreligious Understanding and Global Peace.”
Congratulations to Naveed Hameed, the founder of Faiz Resource Foundation (a URI member group in Pakistan), for being featured by the US Consulate General Lahore for his work!
