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.

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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World Prepares For A Day of Sustainable Peace Sept. 21

URI, the United Nations, and many other organizations and people throughout the world will celebrate the International Day of Peace on Sept. 21, 2012.

Hariyali

"Hariyali" - A tribal movement to save nature, initiated by Ranchi Peace Circle and supported by the Environmental Seed Grants of URI. We started our action to form the network among the members and various tribal community leaders with the help of Birsa Munda Jan Vikash Kendra CC. Specially focusing on very challenging and affected district of Khunti by environmental degradation.

Online ‘Book Club’ Brings URI Regions Together

URI’s Multi-Region team has created a virtual “book club” in which members can discuss books, magazines and articles on interfaith work.

Bishop Swing Addresses Religiously Motivated Violence in Wisconsin and Missouri

We don’t have a manifesto from Wade Michael Page, so we will never know his exact motives. But terrorism against worshippers is religiously motivated violence nonetheless.

Rev. Gibbs Offers 'Condolences and Solidarity' to Sikh Temple Following Attack

I write on behalf of the United Religions Initiative's global community to offer our profound condolences and solidarity at this time of unimaginable tragedy in your community.

Chakraborty Chosen as URI’s India National Team Coordinator

Kiran Bali: URI’s Youngest Chairperson Ready to Lead a New Generation

As a Hindu girl growing up in the (mostly) Christian town of Huddersfield, England, Kiran Bali had a history of interfaith encounters from a very early age. Not all of them were positive

Shared Responsibility for the Earth Fuels Interfaith Environmental Efforts

The Rev. Canon Sally Bingham says she’s never had difficulty reconciling her environmental activism with her role as an Episcopal priest.

Protecting and Preserving the Earth

It’s fitting as URI celebrates its 12^th Anniversary -- as we did on June 26 -- that this issue points to our founder Bishop Swing’s leadership in promoting the words of URI's Preamble.

URI Welcomes Hannington Wako as Young Leaders Program Associate for Africa

Hannington Wako, a longtime volunteer and leader for URI in Africa’s Great Lakes Region, has become the network’s Young Leaders Program Associate for Africa.

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