URI Stories of Impact

On Sunday, June 22, Global Compassion CC staff, along with intern Michael Lui, and Ngwatta Primary School Teacher Chemine Ekembong, facilitated a "Kids Have a Dream Workshop" in Ngwatta, Cameroon. Forty-five children ages 9-15 were in attendance and discovered, explored, and developed their dreams for the future. Children also participated in group discussions, exploring the concept and value of having a dream.

Here I am sharing another new initiative in our East India zone. With the help of Ektaan Band Performance Funds, we are inaugurating a new Cooperation Circle (CC) learning exchange program.

In light of the violent conflict that is devastating so many regions of our world, we call to your attention one of our guiding principles.

Children sense things which we have outgrown. It is a kind of empathy that we have lost, a sensitivity that we have given up.

The theme of 2012’s International Day of Peace was “Sustainable Peace for a Sustainable Environment.” And it was in the spirit of this theme that the Environmental Satellite Cooperation Circle

A vision camp is taking place in the West Bank amidst a war, with participants from Tamera & Grace CC. This is their common statement to the current situation.

The Abrahamic Reunion CC hosted a powerful event of unity in this difficult time in the Holy Land, Tuesday night, July 22, in Nazareth.

Eid al-Fitr (“festival of breaking of the fast"), also called Feast of Breaking the Fast, the Sugar Feast, Bayram (Bajram), the Sweet Festival and the Lesser Eid, is an important religious holiday celebrated by Muslims worldwide that marks the end of Ramadan, the Islamic holy month offasting (sawm).

In the face of a world seemingly addicted to violence, we at the United Religions Initiative are committed to creating alternative spaces of peacebuilding and reconciliation.