URI Stories of Impact

The strong resonance that we as a peace-research project have received this year shows us how urgently we need knowledge of a different way of living on this earth. The success of many of our...

URI members in the Middle East and North Africa region chose the city of Mafraq, Jordan as the site for its annual “helping the needy” winter campaign in 2012.

 In November, URI incorporated four new Cooperation Circles belonging to Africa, the Middle East and North America.

The Rev. Charles P. Gibbs, URI's Executive Director, offered this reflection on the latest Middle East crisis and the Thanksgiving holiday in the United States.

I remember having the same feeling of excitement when I first heard about URI as I did about seeing wild turkeys outside my window.  Both the turkeys and URI fill me with a sense of gratitude.

As leaders of the United Religions Initiative, we raise our voices in solidarity with the innocent civilians, Palestinians and Israelis, suffering from the latest outbreak of deadly violence.