URI Stories of Impact

Jerusalem Peacemakers CC organized a delegation of Jewish and Muslim leaders to show support for the Palestinian village of Qasra where a mosque was burnt and defaced by Jewish extremists. Leading the... 

Dear URI Members, The United Nations has just opened the International Day of Peace website for 2011. 

During our CC Approval Committee Meeting five groups were accepted as members. Four of them will now form part of URI South East Asia and the Pacific Region and one of URI North America. 

As the 10th Anniversary of the 9/11 attacks nears, and I have been thinking a lot about the parallel history of the 11-year-old United Religions Initiative. URI and 9/11, then and now. There were many...

Greetings of love and peace from Sri Lanka. We left home at 5:30 AM this morning for a trip to Kandy, a city in the central highlands. It is now 10:30 PM and I’ve just made it back to my room....

To celebrate the independency day an exiting function was arranged by Global Healing Initiative Pakistan at the Naziran Marry Community Model School (a charity based education institution) on 14th..

Dear Friends -- Greetings of love and peace from Sri Lanka.  I write from my room in a hostel on the campus of the conference center of the Sarvodaya Movement. The overhead fan moves the air around and cools the room a little, but blessedly doesn’t drown out the symphony of night noises from all the creatures in this remote and peaceful place some considerable distance from downtown Colombo. Evidently there is a river, complete with crocodiles, on the grounds, but it was dark when we arrived so an exploration will have to wait.