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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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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The Power to Change the World

Meet URI's new Executive Director, Karen Volker - As I step into my new role as URI’s first woman Executive Director, I want to acknowledge and highlight that I have joined a movement filled with remarkable individuals and organizations that harness collective strength to create meaningful impact—from local communities to the global stage.

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1st National Youth Conference 2014

Asia
Education
Youth

Over 800 youths from different universities joined a First National Youth Conference under theme of ‘‘Toward Employment & Self-Employment Success’’, presided by H.E. Ph.D. NGAO BUN THAN, Rector of RUA on Sunday, 12th January 2014 at Samdech Decho Hun Sen Conference Hall of Royal University of Agriculture which sponsored by Online, CBM and RMA Cambodia. 

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FACIS joined other CC's in comomerating the World Golden Rule Day in Bauchi State, Northern Nigeria

Africa
Community Building
Interfaith and Intercultural Dialogue
Peacebuilding and Conflict Transformation

The Golden Rule Day event was conducted on Saturday April 5th in the famous palace of the district head of Lere, in Tafawa Balewa local government area of Bauchi State.

Tafawa Balewa local government area was chosen to be the venue of this year’s commemoration because of the intermittent crisis that keeps occurring for 2 decades. The intermittent crisis created a huge vacuum of misunderstanding and religious disharmony between the Muslims and Christians. This led to having a divided community of Christians and Muslims in Tafwa Balewa LGA. Muslims are now afraid to go to Christian dominated areas and vice versa.  

The Local Government Area (LGA) is one the 20 Local Government Areas in Bauchi State and is known to have an estimated population of 278, 674. The people in the area speak seven (7) different languages and comprises of Christians or Muslims.

PROLIFE INTERFAITH KENYA CC LAUNCHES A COMMUNITY-BASED ORGANISATION AS A POWERFUL TOOL IN COMBATING POVERTY.

Africa
Community Building
Interfaith and Intercultural Dialogue
Peacebuilding and Conflict Transformation
Poverty Alleviation and Economic Opportunity
Policy Advocacy
Youth

Today at Mbale town in Vihiga County,Western Kenya,Prolife Interfaith Kenya CC which is growing very fast saw the launch of its Community-Based Organisation (C.B.O) whose main aim shall be to fight corruption and poverty in the society.

"Along this line, this shall help put all faiths in the communities of Vihiga County together and hence establishing solid peace and co-existence",said its Deputy Director Mrs Moreen Avoga.Mrs Avoga is the CC's newly elected Deputy Director.The immediate former Mr Onesmus Keverenge is now the CC's Executive Secretary.

The new CBO is known as:Maisha Kenya CBO.

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Celebration of World Interfaith Harmony Week by PCSW&HR in February 2014

Asia
Human Rights
Interfaith and Intercultural Dialogue
Media
Peacebuilding and Conflict Transformation
Youth

As the UN General Assembly unanimously passed a resolution to observe the World Interfaith Harmony Week annually during the first week of February. During the 1st week of February 2014 the world celebrated 4th world interfaith harmony week throughout the world. Pakistan Council for Social Welfare & Human Rights (PCSW&HR) also actively participated to celebrate the world interfaith harmony week. To celebrate this week PCSW&HR organized various awareness activities.