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.

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.

The Power to Change the World

Meet URI's new Executive Director, Karen Volker - As I step into my new role as URI’s first woman Executive Director, I want to acknowledge and highlight that I have joined a movement filled with remarkable individuals and organizations that harness collective strength to create meaningful impact—from local communities to the global stage.

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Women Walk for Peace and Sisterhood in Jerusalem

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.

Global Partnerships Building Community

May 24, 2016. April 16th was a rewarding and memorable time as I reconnected with individuals I've know for a couple of decades, those that are one degree of separation from those I've known this long, and those I've recently met for the first time in San Francisco. 

The Weekly Shot: Rwandan Genocide Memorial

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

Notes on South African Zonal Conference

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

Welcoming URI's New Global Council Trustees!

The URI community has concluded its quadrennial election of the Global Council, in which more CCs participated and more candidates ran for positions than ever before.

URI at China 2nd Forum on Dialogue of Civilizations

I represented URI at Chang’An Forum on Dialogue of Civilizations, which brought together diverse leaders and representatives to promote mutual understanding, inclusiveness and connectivity between civilizations.

Video: CC Members Introduce Students to Interfaith Cooperation

Catholic school students created this video and presented URI as a subject for their international exam.

The Weekly Shot: Vesak

Visakha Puja Day, also known as Vesakha Wesak, Vesak, Buddha Purnima, and Buddha Day, is a Buddhist holiday.

URI Participates in Regional Meeting to Prevent Violence and Atrocity Crimes in Africa

URI took part at the meeting on the role of religious leaders in Africa in preventing incitement which leads to violence and atrocity crimes.

Creating New Tools for Our Journey

May 15, 2016. Your wisdom, shared with the wisdom of others, becomes part of a higher collective consciousness which is very powerful.

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