URI Stories of Impact

As we begin a new calendar year, it’s always good to pause, reflect and savor what we know and what we don’t know.

A report from the 4th African Union Summit, held in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia under the theme of  “2015 Year of Women’s Empowerment and Development towards Africa’s Agenda 2063.”

“This event will not make it to the headlines,” Koca said, highlighting the challenges that Muslims face when they do speak out against extremism. “But God does not judge us by the headlines, but by what we do here and now.”

As I read the paper this morning in Kerala, India, I was startled to read the following: “If we can have a United Nations Organization, can we not have a United Religions Organization?”

Rosalia Gutierrez, Of The Indigenous People of Argentina Cooperation Circle leader, received a great honor from Argentinean daily newspaper Cronica. 

In its early years URI embraced cooperation and collaboration. But we also found that “walking the talk” of collaboration – to develop ingrained organizational habits and practices of collaboration – didn’t come so easy.

URI Cooperation Circles across North America — and the world! — will be celebrating World Interfaith Harmony Week (WIHW) from February 1-7.  

Representatives of 11 indigenous Cooperation Circles from Latin America and the Caribbean took part in “Honoring the Spirit of Grandfather Fire," a forum on native spirituality.