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.

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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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AFCOPB to host the 2nd Africa Peace Conference in October 2015

Africa
Community Building
Health and Social Services
Peacebuilding and Conflict Transformation
Policy Advocacy
Women
Youth

The 2nd Africa Peace Conference is being organized by the Africa Center for Peace Building, Ghana in collaboration with the Universal Peace Federation (UPF), an NGO in Special Consultative Status with the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations and supported by Teachers Without Borders, Global Educators for All Initiative, Passion House International and Senyo Global Group. 

Oprah Presents "BELIEF" Series; URI Members to be featured

North America
Interfaith and Intercultural Dialogue
Media
Peacebuilding and Conflict Transformation

For three years Oprah has been working to create a television series that illuminates what bind us together as human beings — BELIEF.  Episode 2, tells the story of Christian Pastor James Wuye and Muslim Imam Muhammad Ashafa, members of the United Religions Initiative Interfaith Mediation Centre Cooperation Circle. These men used to be brutal enemies but now work together to promote peace.