URI Stories of Impact

Former enemies in an ongoing, deadly Nigerian conflict, Christian Pastor James Wuye and Muslim Imam Muhammad Ashafa reconciled their differences to stand as an example to their community and honor both their faiths' teachings to "love your enemy."

Read the 2021 First Quarter newsletter from Phalombe Youth Arms Organisation (PYAO), a URI member group in Phalombe, Malawi.

The Institute Hispano of Buddhists Studies (IEBH, in Spanish) is pleased to invite you to the Hispanic Celebration of International Buddha Day 2021. Once a year we meet representatives, practitioners and people related to the different schools of Buddhism to celebrate the International Day of the Buddha, in order to unify efforts in the dissemination of his teaching. We celebrate that we can count on the invaluable knowledge of the path to liberation from suffering as discovered and expounded by the Buddha, and that we can be part of this transmission for the benefit of many.

In URI we share the sacred with diverse voices, practices, and feelings. Every member of URI brings unique expressions of prayer, meditation, ritual, and reflection.

Ma’at, emerging over 4000 years ago, refers to the ancient Egyptian concepts of truth balance, order, harmony, law, morality, and justice.

The Bahá'í holy day of the Ascension of Bahá'u'lláh begins at sundown on May 27 this year.

On Saturday May 22, 2021, Mauricio Actual, a member of the Bridge Builders CC (a URI member group in Buenos Aires, Argentina), organized a small meeting for peace.

On Saturday May 15, the youth of CC COEMATI (a URI member group) participated in a celebration of the day of San Juan Bautista de La Salle in Jujuy, Argentina.

Cultural, Educational and Environmental Organization (CEEO-India) is a URI member group working in Jammu and Kashmir, India.