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.

NUCLEAR PRAYER 2025

His All-Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew Endorses Nuclear Prayer Day

His All-Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew endorses Nuclear Prayer Day

guru nanak prize

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

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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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Living Our Values

Europe
Education

Day 27: Imagine a world where children are taught to think not only of themselves when making choices, but also of the impact of those choices on others and the world as a whole. 

The Vatican Goes Green

Europe
Environment

The Holy See has embarked on a new mission: the fight against climate change. In 2007, Pope Benedict XVI announced that Vatican City would strive to become the first carbon-neutral state. Although the..

Salwan School launches a Green Programme

Asia
Environment

Salwan School, a Cooperation Circle in New Delhi, India, launched the Green School Programme in July.  Five teams were organized to evaluate their current use of water, air, land, energy and waste. The purpose of this program is to help students assess their use of resources and map their consumption and wastage.  It enables them to identify the gaps in their current practices. The program will stimulate the growth of a more environmentally aware and responsible generation of citizens. The program began with a ceremony, with the principal planting a sapling in the school grounds.