URI Stories of Impact

Celebrating the 75th anniversary of the United Nations, interfaith and peacebuilding leaders came together (virtually, due to pandemic restrictions) on Saturday, June 27, 2020 to commemorate the creation and signing of the United Nations Charter in San Francisco.

Jocelyn Armstrong, a longtime interfaith leader in URI, has been awarded the Archbishop of Canterbury’s Lambeth Hubert Walter Award recognizing her outstanding contribution to interfaith relations in New Zealand.

The Coronavirus pandemic still makes a lot of noise. World Dynamics of Young People (WDYP) have carried out a number of activities to help our target groups.

As the URI 20th anniversary began, the WIN URI CC (Women's Interfaith Network URI Cooperation Circle, or member group) held our anniversary celebration on Zoom.

Marianne Horling, member of URI Deutschland, and Jennifer Taj, member of URI Golden Star CC Pakistan, join demonstrators in Bonn, Germany to protest racism.

In response to COVID-19, Cooperation Circles in East India, Bangladesh and Nepal have provided support through relief services. 

In response to the food security crisis created as a result of the COVID-19 lockdown, USPP and URI communities are working together to provide families with food parcels and protective masks each week. 

Parliament of the People CC, in Schaumburg, South Africa have been distributing food hampers and delivering them door to door to families who are struggling for food.

On July 9th, 2020, the members of the CC Fraternity Interspiritual held a virtual meeting with Councilors from Guadalajara, Mexico City, San Luis Potosí, El Salvador and the United States to organize new digital activities that allow them to live in intercultural and interreligious harmony in means of physical distancing.

Interfaith prayers are offered for the end of COVID-19, and for the safety of the whole world.