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URI at the G20 Interfaith Forum in Cape Town, South Africa

URI at the G20 Interfaith Forum in Cape Town, South Africa

NUCLEAR PRAYER 2025

His All-Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew Endorses Nuclear Prayer Day

His All-Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew endorses Nuclear Prayer Day

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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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Golden rule tour in Europe

Europe
Community Building
Interfaith and Intercultural Dialogue
Peacebuilding and Conflict Transformation

Dear all

the golden rule tour in Europe is now taking place marts 2011. Would your CC in europe like to have a visit from Mussie Hailu From Etiopia and Lone Klemmensen from Denmark. then please contact Lone on [email protected] . most of the funding has been found but we will accept donations to help fund our travelexpenses getting from place to place in europe.
If you feel inspired to organise an event to promote the golden rule. We most welcome your help.

If anybody from other parts of the world would like a visit from us or has great ideas on how to promote the golden rule or would like to donate to the tour please get in contact with Lone

Welcome to URI’s new website

Dear Friends, Welcome to URI’s new website – a portal to a vibrant global community. We embrace a shared purpose, celebrate diversity and work together to transform ourselves and the...

Making Sense of Copenhagen

North America
Environment

The United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen, in December 2009, has come and gone. How to interpret its impact is the question?  Pessimistic voices declare that its goal of a binding agreement among nations failed miserably and that the venue of small and large nations together was far too unwieldy to arrive at a meaningful conclusion.  Optimistic voices are cheered that it happened at all.  That leading polluting nations arrived at a common intent to change and that Copenhagen represented only one stop on a long road, whose next steps are Mexico (2010) and beyond until a binding agreement is achieved.

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URI Young Leaders in Action - YLP in Southeast Asia and the Pacific, April 2010

Southeast Asia and the Pacific
Arts
Community Building
Health and Social Services
Interfaith and Intercultural Dialogue
Peacebuilding and Conflict Transformation
Youth

This report shares details about the youth leadership training that took place from April 13-15, 2010, followed by the URI Southeast Asia and the Pacific Regional Assembly from April 15 - 19. 12 young people from Australia, Malaysia, Nepal, Pakistan, the Philippines and the U.S. took part in this leadership training, organized by Sharon Vaswani and Shakuntala Vaswani, and facilitated by Youth Programs Director Sarah Talcott Blair. The training offered workshops in interfaith dialogue, interfaith peacebuilding, an environmental symposium and team-building. Youth Ambassadors from both Asia and Southeast Asia also participated. Written by Sarah Talcott.

Moon Walk 4 Peace Update

would like to take a moment to invite you to participate in our 13 Moon Walk 4 Peace campaign to get our nation and the world walking in solidarity for peace through social justice, "spiritual democracy" (www.spiritualdemocracry.com), interfaith dialog, education, and eco-mindfulness.