URI Stories of Impact

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.

Moments of quiet remind us to look past our outward differences and connect on a simpler level. Join TRUST WIN on a walk of sisterhood and peace. 

Interfaith Mediation Centre, a Nigerian CC, marked the anniversary of the 1994 Rwandan genocide. 

A CC leader reflects on the URI South African Zonal Conference.