URI Stories of Impact

Our community is working tirelessly to bring peace and justice in all areas of the world regardless of religion. Read stories straight from the organizers.

His All-Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew Endorses Nuclear Prayer Day

His All-Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew endorses Nuclear Prayer Day

Prestigious Guru Nanak Prize awarded to URI and its Founder the Rt. Rev. William E. Swing

URI Receives the 2024 Hofstra's Guru Nanak Interfaith Prize

URI CC Receives the Common Wealth Peace Prize

The co-founders of the Interfaith Mediation Centre, a URI Cooperation Circle from Kaduna Nigeria, West Africa, receive the first Commonwealth Peace Prize.

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Memoriam for Fr. Dr. Albert Nambiarparambil

Renowned peacebuilder Father Albert Nambiaparambil passed away after a brief illness on Feb. 8.

Giving Refugee Children Their First School

All the children we met at the refugee camp had never been in school, since the older ones (4-11 years old) fled with their families about five years ago from the violence in Syria. The younger ones were born in this refugee camp.

Tamera CC Dances to Defend the Sacred — a must see video!

Feb 21, 2017. Tamera & Grace dances to One Billion Rising in solidarity with "Defending the Sacred".

The Weekly Shot: Welcoming Refugees in Uganda

We found out that many locals had given up pieces of their land to host the refugees

Our Harmony Week Activities

The Executive Director and members of the Lowershire Interfaith Assembly (LSIA) of Southern Malawi in Chikwawa district are very happy to report that on Monday 6th February, 2017, we organised prayers and fellowship as an initiative in the Harmony Week activities.

Editorial: More People of Faith Need to Speak Up

Do people of faith have anything unique to bring to the struggles of the present moment? Can they do more than simply swell the multitudes protesting in the street or overwhelming Capitol telephone lines?

Women’s Interfaith Harmony Gathering for World lnterfaith Harmony Week

Forty Israeli and Palestinian women -- Druze, Jewish, and Muslim members of the Mada CC and Women Reborn CC's -- joined the TRUST WIN CC women. We began by reflecting on the difficult times in the world and in our region with hatred, racism, and religiophobia on the rise.

The Weekly Shot: Welcoming Refugees in Uganda

We found out that many locals had given up pieces of their land to host the refugees.

“URI at the UN” Cooperation Circle hosts young adults from URI North America

Feb 16, 2017. Kelly Johnson traveled to the United Nations as part of a URI North America-sponsored program for young adult interfaith leaders. This trip occurred during World Interfaith Harmony Week. Kelly works at the Rothko Chapel,  a sacred space and work of art by painter Mark Rothko. Rothko Chapel is a Cooperation Circle member of the United Religions Initiative.

Celebrating Life and Interfaith Friendship

Being together was the most beautiful birthday present for me. I dedicate the evening to the UN World Interfaith Harmony Week, the message of which came out beautifully in our time together

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URI Stories of Impact

A World Free of Nuclear Weapons: Learning from Our Past, Safeguarding Our Future

His All-Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew Endorses Nuclear Prayer Day

Prestigious Guru Nanak Prize awarded to URI and its Founder the Rt. Rev. William E. Swing

URI CC Receives the Common Wealth Peace Prize

Memoriam for Fr. Dr. Albert Nambiarparambil

Giving Refugee Children Their First School

Tamera CC Dances to Defend the Sacred — a must see video!

The Weekly Shot: Welcoming Refugees in Uganda

Our Harmony Week Activities

Editorial: More People of Faith Need to Speak Up

Women’s Interfaith Harmony Gathering for World lnterfaith Harmony Week

The Weekly Shot: Welcoming Refugees in Uganda

“URI at the UN” Cooperation Circle hosts young adults from URI North America

Celebrating Life and Interfaith Friendship