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.

His All-Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew Endorses Nuclear Prayer Day

His All-Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew endorses Nuclear Prayer Day

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

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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Announcing Launch of the Faith For Harm Reduction Manual

Alliance India, URI, eminent faith-based institutions, and The Global Fund are launching the training module for sensitizing faith-based communities on health and rights-based approaches to drug use. See more about the #Faith4HarmReduction approach, a unique initiative to build bridges between harm reduction services, the community perspectives of people who use drugs, and faith-based communities.

URI Europe Coordinator Interviewed on British Radio “Voice of Islam”

URI Europe Coordinator Ms. Karimah Stauch gave an interview to the British radio station “Voice of Islam” on 2nd October for the UN International Day of Non-violence.

URI is Participating in the 7th Annual G20 Interfaith Forum

The 2020 G20 Interfaith Forum will take place online from 13th to 17th October 2020 prior to the G20 Leaders’ Summit in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

URI Congratulates the World Food Programme for Being Awarded the Nobel Peace Prize

URI expresses its congratulations to the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) on being awarded the 2020 Nobel Peace Prize for its efforts to combat hunger, for its contribution to bettering conditions for peace in conflict-affected areas, and for acting as a driving force to prevent the use of hunger as a weapon of war and conflict.

The Weekly Shot: URI in The Visionaries

URI will be featured in the upcoming season of The Visionaries.

Celebration of the International Day of Peace 2020 at Peace Center in Lahore, Pakistan

Peace Center and United Religions Initiative (URI) Pakistan organized the celebration of International Day of Peace on 20th September, 2020 at Peace Center, in Lahore, Pakistan.

URI to Appear in The Visionaries Series on PBS

You're invited to watch the exciting premiere: URI will be featured in the 24th season of The Visionaries!

International Day of Peace

URI in Latin America and the Caribbean is made up of 59 cooperation circles in Argentina, Brazil, Bolivia, Cuba, Chile, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Haiti, Mexico, Paraguay, Panama, Peru, Uruguay and Venezuela. The work includes cultural, social, religious diversity and the great teachings of indigenous worldviews.

The Weekly Shot: Virtual Interreligious Dialogue Training

Bridge Builders, a URI member group in Argentina, holds virtual training workshops for young people to learn about interreligious dialogue.

URI is Participating in the Global Observance of World Habitat Day

URI is participating at the virtual Global Observance of World Habitat Day 2020, co-hosted by UN-Habitat and the Government of the Republic of Indonesia from the City of Surabaya.

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