URI Stories of Impact

Fr. James Channan OP and Maulana Abdul Khabir Azad, URI members and interfaith activists in Pakistan, received the URI-Africa 2017 Interfaith Harmony Award.

Sep 26, 2017. 

Multiple URI groups in Palestine celebrated the International Day of Peace 2017.

Read a prayer shared at the URI Europe Sub-Regional Meeting in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, prepared by the Orthodox Christian team of URI in Europe.

Sep 25, 2017. 

Melodies and Meditation was organized in honour of the UN IDP by Prafull Oorja Charitable Foundation at Lahe Lahe in Bangalore, India.

Sep 23, 2017. Some 500 saints and citizens joined together on the banks of the River Ganga (Ganges) at the foothills of the Himalayas to honour the International Day of Peace with a special Water Blessing Ceremony

Sep 22, 2017. This is to inform you that following the agreement signed between URI-Africa & World Peace Prayer Society (WPPS) to work in partnership together to promote a culture of peace in Africa.

Sep 22, 2017. 

The commemoration of IDP 2017 was held simultaneously in the countries of three

youth ambassadors (Bosnia, Bulgaria and Morocco) was focused on children, unlike

what we initially planned to organise (a spiritual gathering and ritual meals) which

was considered more impactful.

Safia Belayadi reflects on her experience as a URI Global Office Communications intern for the summer of 2017.

Wadie Algaheim reflects on his experience as a URI Global Office Communications intern for the summer of 2017.