URI Stories of Impact

Children aged 11 to 15 participated in the second edition of the Bridges-Between-Cultures project in Stara Zagora, Southern Bulgaria, learning how to connect with people who belong to other cultures.

The Bainbridge Island North Kitsap Interfaith Council has been organizing annual concerts for fourteen years. However, quite recently, the concerts have evolved. What started out as a choir concert has turned into something much larger.

Our Cooperation Circle, in partnership with Women Coalition Against Cancer, held a “Support, Don’t Punish” campaign to urge a more supportive approach to solving the youth drug abuse problem in Malawi.

Art compitition was organized within school to promote peace-building thoughts in student through art and drawing

URI took part at the G20 Interfaith Summit of 2017 which was held at University of Potsdam, Germany from June 15 to 17, 2017.

African Youths Initiative on Crime Prevention, a URI Cooperation Circle in Lagos, Nigeria, co-hosted the 2017 National Youth Summit on Crime Prevention last May, in partnership with the Nigerian Institute of International Affairs, Lagos.

We wish to share our end-of-quarter newsletter (Apr-June 2017) for the URI Africa Great Lakes Region.

As five panelists of different religious backgrounds discussed their traditions, women around the room at an iftar held in Syracuse, NY, began to latch onto the thread of commonality that brought them together.