URI Stories of Impact

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.

The First Women's Interfaith Network (WIN URI) Newsletter is available to read today.

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.”

URI members participated in World AIDS Day events in Piura, Peru.

Read an interview with Jane Alex, convener of Wipe My Tears Foundation (a URI Cooperation Circle in Juba, South Sudan).

It was attended by religious, business and government leaders to reflect and connect with the deepest and most spiritual aspects of living.