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.

The co-founders of the Interfaith Mediation Centre, a URI Cooperation Circle from Kaduna Nigeria, West Africa, receive the first Commonwealth Peace Prize.

Meet URI's new Executive Director, Karen Volker - As I step into my new role as URI’s first woman Executive Director, I want to acknowledge and highlight that I have joined a movement filled with remarkable individuals and organizations that harness collective strength to create meaningful impact—from local communities to the global stage.

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Freedom Riders - Stepping Up

Last night I witnessed a burst of historic heroic citizenship in the USA when I watched a PBS special program called The Freedom Riders. In 1961 racism was ugly, mean, unjust, and embedded in American society. Southern states enforced Jim Crow legislation and local police enforced segregated sitting rooms in bus and railroad stations in cities across the South.

Intra-faith Gathering

Children of the Earth invites you to attend a one day International Intra-faith Gathering. Through the gathering, we hope to bring together youth from various backgrounds and faiths to be able to open up, share and learn with other participants through group interaction, guest speakers, a meditation class, games, a documentary film showing, and much more. Dr. Kul Chandra Gautam, former Assistant Secretary General of the UN and Deputy Executive Director of UNICEF will be the guest speaker.