URI Stories of Impact

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.

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.

URI’s Executive Director, the Rev. Canon Charles Gibbs, is the featured guest this Sunday on “MOSAIC,” a weekly show about spirituality airing in the San Francisco Bay Area.

The tenth item in URI’s list of principles – “We act from sound ecological practices to protect and preserve the Earth for both present and future generations” – might seem a little peculiar to someone who thinks of URI primarily as an interfaith organization devoted to peace.

A delegation of senior religious leaders from the Buddhist, Christian, Jewish and Muslim faiths discussed the need for spiritual leadership on environmental issues during a conference in Kiev.