URI Stories of Impact

This week, the Bahá'í Faith celebrates the Twin Holy Birthdays.

See the latest newsletter from URI Latin America and The Caribbean, which focuses on celebrations of Peace Day 2019.

On October 7th, 2019, URI Asia Regional Coordinator in Asia, Dr. Fr. James Channan, collaborated with Golden Star CC coordinator Ms. Neelam Nisari to put the spotlight on the issue of gender equality, the 5th goal of the United Nations.

A tribute to Margaret Jones, Co-Founder of the San Francisco Peninsula Cooperation Circle.

Members of the URI Cooperation Circle Interkultureller Kreis URI Bonn, as well as school children and others, folded more than 1100 origami cranes in memory of the victims of the A-Bomb having had fallen on Hiroshima in the year 1945.

The URI Europe Assembly was held in Ohrid, Macedonia on October 2-6, 2019. URI members from across Europe (including 15 countries and 32 Cooperation Circles) gathered to exchange ideas, enjoy productive conversations, and plan future collaboration and activities.

Community leaders from North Macedonia were hosted on Oct 18 at the URI Global Support Office.

Please give a warm welcome to the latest groups to join the global URI network.

Please give a warm welcome to Samira Baručija, who begins her position as the Regional Coordinator for the URI Multiregion on Monday, October 21. 

URI is the largest grassroots interfaith peacebuilding organization in the world, with more than 1,000,000 volunteers in 108 countries.