URI Stories of Impact

Carine Mamifo Ngouanto [18] recently won 1st prize for her Commonwealth country Cameroon in our inspire>aspire: Global Citizens in the Making International Awards. 

As an enraged mob on November 4, 2014 beat the Christian couple to death on minor dispute and then burnt their bodies in the brick kiln where they worked at Kot Radha Kishan area of Punjab Province - Pakistan. To condemn this inhuman and shameful act of lynching of a Christian couple by a mob Pakistan Council for Social Welfare & Human Rights convened its executive committee meeting. Mr. Muhammad Ijaz Noori Chairman Pakistan Council for Social Welfare & Human Rights chaired the executive committee meeting. Prominent religious leaders Moulana Abdul Ghafoor Noori Divisional Khateeb Gujranwala Division, Chairman Ulama Mashaiqe Council Dr. Mufti Najeeb Ahmed Hashmi especially participated in the executive committee meeting of PCSW&HR. Mr. Mushtaq Ahmed Qadri, Ch. Muhammad Ijaz, Mansoor Ahmed and others also addressed during the executive committee meeting. 

Today marks the end of the first day of the Assembly, and it was filled with insight, inspiration and joyous celebration.

In early October I traveled from Bonn to Lienz in East-Tirol. After a drive of nine hours – the last three hours crossing the Alps with the mountains of the Hohe Tauern – I came into a real paradise! Lienz (population: 11,600) is situated in a valley surrounded by mountains of about 2,000 m in height at the small river Isel, which flows into the Drau right along the city.

For Dr. Kazi Nurul Islam, URI Global Council Trustee from Bangladesh, interfaith peacebuilding has been an inevitable part of his life’s path.

Living is a ‘give and take’ experience.

URI Executive Director Victor Kazanjian celebrated Arti with H.H. Swami Chidanand Saraswatiji, URI Global Council Chair Kiran Bali, and URI UN representative Patrick Nickisch in Rishikesh, India.

United Religions Initiative (URI) Africa presented its 2014 Africa Peace Award to Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD) October 25.

On Sept. 6th, as part of YLP for youth we coordinated for a three hour outreach from 10 am to 1pm at ISKCON, Juhu. The outreach included darshan, visiting Srila Prabhupada's museum, interacting with a Muslim Tailor, attending seminar and finally seeing aarthi of the Lord.