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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.

His All-Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew Endorses Nuclear Prayer Day

His All-Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew endorses Nuclear Prayer Day

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

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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"My House shall be a House of Prayer for all People"

The following is a sermon given by the Rt. Rev. William E. Swing on July 28^th, 2013, at St. Andrew’s Dune Church in Southampton, New York.

Isaiah 56: 3 – 8
Mark 11: 15 - 19

Jesus did not make up these words: "My House shall be called a House of Prayer for all people." Those words were written about 500 years before He was born. Jesus didn't make up those words, but he thought about them....a lot. And he added a few words of his own. And he did something dramatic to make those words come alive in the great temple in Jerusalem.

URI Africa joins the United Nations Information Centre to celebrate IDP

URI Africa, in partnership with United Nations Information Centre (UNIC), is celebrating the 2013 International Day of Peace (IDP)

URI Bids Farewell to Associate Executive Director Debra Ballinger Bernstein

Debra Ballinger Bernstein is stepping down from her position as Associate Executive Director of URI after four years

URI in the Netherlands meets French youth group InterFaith Tour

During the month of August, URI in the Netherlands met with a team of four French students calling themselves “InterFaith Tour.”

URI Announces New Executive Director

The United Religious Initiative (URI) announces Victor Kazanjian as its new Executive Director.

URI North America celebrates 25 years of NAIN Connect in Toronto

URI North America celebrated the 25^th year of the North American Interfaith Network (NAIN) in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

URI Holds Major Workshop in Bangladesh to Promote Interreligious Harmony

In late July, URI Bangladesh helped host "Interreligious Harmony Building," coordinated by Love and Peace Circle CC.

50 Year Anniversary of the March on Washington 'I Have Dream' Speech

Dear URI friends, today marks 50 years since Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his famous ‘I Have a Dream’ speech.

Women Reborn CC builds bridges to empower women

The Women Reborn CC coordinated two ifars in Israel for Ramadan this year.

The 9/11 Unity Walk

In a striking display of unity, every house of worship – every church, synagogue, temple, gurdwara and mosque on Embassy Row opens their doors to each other and symbolically the world.  

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