URI Stories of Impact

URI Pakistan took part in the global Symphony of Peace Prayers and Soul of WoMen celebrations earlier this May, bringing together various cultural and faith groups across the country. 

Supporting one another is key to URI CCs' pursuit of interfaith, intercultural solutions to needs in the community. Step backstage to see what goes on at a Zonal Conference!

In a place of great conflict, women take time to reaffirm the ties of sisterhood and therefore of peace. 

May 29, 2016. 

Namaste, 

We are excited to announce "Stars and SuryaNamaskars", an event in honour of International Yoga Day. 

For many, peacebuilding and interfaith work takes on very practical forms: food, water, health. One of the newest CCs to the URI community shares their experience as they get started. 

Kiran Bali writes about the Soul of WoMen Campaign recently launched in Japan on the first anniversary of the Fuji Declaration. 

Today, Barack Obama stands in Hiroshima, Japan, honoring the residents of the city and all who were affected by the tragic nuclear bombing of WWII. He is the first sitting United States president to visit the city.

May 26, 2016.

Central to URI's work is the idea of individual CCs identifying and working on community-specific issues. Every year, Kashi Ashram supports the US Postal Service's Stamp Out Hunger Food Drive, now in its 24th year. 

United Religions Initiative (URI)-Africa presented its Africa Peace Award to H.E. Dr. Ameenah Gurib-Fakim, the first female president of the Republic of Mauritius and the third on the African continent.