URI Stories of Impact

The worldwide United Religions Initiative community shares messages and wishes on June 26th, the 18th anniversary of the URI Charter signing.

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

The world acknowledged World Refugee Day last week on June 20, giving the international URI community a chance to reflect on Cooperation Circles’ work to help refugees throughout the world.

Fifty years after the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., many feel it is time for another revival — not a religious revival, but one that will initiate a new era of dignity and honor for all people. And so, in 2018, thousands of participants are launching a new Poor People’s Campaign.

Today, June 20 is World Refugee Day. According to the United Nations Refugee Agency (UNRA), more than 68 million people around the world are refugees or internally displaced as a result of conflict or persecution.

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

Please enjoy the latest issue of the URI Pakistan Newsletter UMANG, which covers events from January - March 2018 .

A youth interfaith partnership in Kampala Celebrates World Environment Day by building community sensitivity to plastics pollution to end plastics dumping into roads, rivers and drinking wells. 

In Caracas, Venezuela, on April 28, the members of "Circulo De Cooperación para el Diálogo" held an interreligious prayer day, all praying with the intention to send healing energies to Mother Earth.