URI Stories of Impact

Katherine Hreib has spent her time at the United Religions Initiative to help facilitate the connections needed to push for more ecological sustainability in communities.

By words and actions, people all over the world give voice to URI. Read an example.

Members and some friends of the Community of Spiritual and Ecological Reflection (CREE) and Foro Espiritual de Santiago para la Paz CC prepared a hundred bags with food and personal hygiene supplies to deliver to the emigrant brothers who were sleeping outside in the Quito bus terminal.

On December 11, 2014, the United Nations proclaimed June 21 as the International Day of Yoga, with Resolution 69/131, in recognition of the universal popularity of this discipline.

The Cooperation Circle Yacu Yura shares news about one of its current activities to preserve Indigenous traditions and teachings.

By words and actions, people all over the world give voice to URI. Read an example.

URI-Africa presented its prestigious Africa Peace Award to Dr. Jane Goodall, Ph.D., DBE, Founder of the Jane Goodall Institute and UN Messenger of Peace, on July 8, 2018.

In URI's Southern African Region, the Linda Tucker Foundation - a URI Cooperation Circle based in Limpopo, South Africa - works tirelessly to protect the extremely rare white lions.

People from around the United States walked and held ceremonies, seeking the healing of the earth and the end of nuclear weapons.

In a radio interview, representatives from the Arizona Faith Network (AFN) and Arizona Interfaith Movement (AzIFM) talk about how their organizations are different from one another and, more importantly, how they complement each other's work.