URI Stories of Impact

If our governments persist in pointing fingers of blame, escalating misinformation, and the threat of war, the people of USA and Russia must not follow along.

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

Read the latest issue of UMANG, a newsletter from URI Pakistan. This issue covers events from April - June 2019.

August 24, 2019, was the URI Youth Assembly at Karickam International Public School.

In the nearly two decades since the September 11 terror attacks in the United States, international and interfaith peacebuilding work has grown increasingly important as humanitarian groups try to create cohesion in a fractured world.

They gathered to jointly celebrate the Honoris Causa Doctorate of the UCV granted to Dr. Daisaku Ikeda.

It’s difficult to fathom the impact that this kind of grandiose propaganda had upon the generations of Russians who took these subways every day. Today, Moscow’s primarily younger generation stream past me glued to their phones.

The Rev. Victor Kazanjian, Executive Director of URI, and Ms. Audrey Kitagawa, Chair of the Board of the Parliament of the World's Religions and longtime member of URI, were elected as Honorary Presidents of Religions for Peace International. 

Victor Kazanjian and Audrey Kitagawa were elected as Honorary Presidents of Religions for Peace International, and URI celebrates the appointment of Professor Azza Karam as Secretary General of Religions for Peace.