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The co-founders of the Interfaith Mediation Centre, a URI Cooperation Circle from Kaduna Nigeria, West Africa, receive the first Commonwealth Peace Prize.
For the first time, the Kerala Council of Churches (An association of 19 churches and 29 related organizations) and URI joined hands together to organize an important interfaith seminar in connection..
On 19 and 20 February, the Moroccan network of intercultural dialogue organized a training session, and also a one-day meeting of discussion and coordination of works with a group of Moroccan NGOs who work in Morocco and at the international level.
I recently went to a fund-raiser for the URI CC Interfaith Power and Light. The speaker was the eminent American biologist and author about the global environmental crisis, Dr. E.O. Wilson. It was a fascinating conversation and it got me to thinking about the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. What are we saying to God in the face of this catastrophe?
The music festival was a wonderful opportunity for like-minded artists to bond and reflect on their contribution to a better world, and for URI Cooperation Circles to come together around a unifying project.
The news is so upsetting, people are shutting it off, announcing their “media cleanse” like it’s a fad diet. But if you’re too worried to sleep at night, the answer is not to stick your head in the sand. The answer is to wake up.
Yesterday, ten members from Quested Peace and Jordan Seeds of Peace Cooperation Circles distributed food packages and donations to needy Syrian refugees in a camp located south of Amman.