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.
The co-founders of the Interfaith Mediation Centre, a URI Cooperation Circle from Kaduna Nigeria, West Africa, receive the first Commonwealth Peace Prize.
On the occasion of the UN Day of Tolerance (November 16) the Sultanate of Oman is hosting an international conference in Oman on "Growing a Network - Tolerance, Understanding, Coexistence - Oman's Message of Islam". Karimah Stauch, European URI Coordinator, was invited to participate.
Last holiday season, Kashi Foundation, a URI North America Cooperation Circle, organized volunteers to visit a nearby impoverished community to provide food and other essentials to the residents there.
URI Europe participated in the First Symposium on Interfaith and Intercultural Dialogue, “Connecting Actions” at Salle Paris at the FIAP. The conference was held to overcome the tendency to stigmatize Muslims, Jews, and immigrants, and how to deconstruct stereotypes.
During many months, representatives of the Sioux and more than 200 other First Nation peoples have taken a stand to oppose the construction of a pipeline on the Standing Rock Reservation.
One year ago, URI hosted an interfaith celebration at St. Gregory of Nyssa Episcopal Church in San Francisco, California, USA, bringing together groups from different religious traditions and cultural performers.
Our team visited the transgender compound December 11 at Laxmi Nagar Delhi, with the objective of giving them the same kind of rights and self-respect each one of us enjoys.