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.

NUCLEAR PRAYER 2025

His All-Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew Endorses Nuclear Prayer Day

His All-Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew endorses Nuclear Prayer Day

guru nanak prize

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

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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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Nuclear Weapons and the Moral and Spiritual Compass

Oct 25, 2015. Like the rest of you in this auditorium, I read news about nuclear issues wherever and whenever I can. And as I read, I try to place the new information into the old categories that I have structured in my mind. 

Herding Mediterranean Peace Donkeys

CARAVAN is hosting the Mediterranean Peace Donkey, a peacebuilding public art exhibition of 21 life-sized fiberglass “Maltese” donkeys painted by premier Maltese and Mediterranean artists symbolizing the need for peace and compassion between the Middle East and West, and more specifically, throughout the Mediterranean region (i.e. a donkey for each of the 21 Mediterranean nations).

EAST-WEST ARTIST EXCHANGE

This year we are pleased to be able to focus on the noted Egyptian artist Marwa Adel who has secured a Fulbright Fellowship and as of last month is based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, focusing her study at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts (PAFA).