Interfaith and Intercultural Dialogue

“We listen and speak with respect to deepen mutual understanding and trust.” - URI Principle 5
SunDABT CC inviting interfaith dialogue

URI Cooperation Circles must include members of at least three different religions or traditions. By engaging in respectful conversations, members learn, share and build bridges of understanding.

Examples of our work in this Action Area:

  • Sun Devils Are Better Together (SunDABT), a university student group and URI Cooperation Circle, creates safe spaces for people to ask respectful questions about other religions by holding signs that read, "Meet a Muslim," "Meet a Jew," etc.

  • The URI global community celebrates UN World Interfaith Harmony Week (WIHW) in the first week of February each year, with grassroots interfaith events in many communities.

  • Campinas CC in Brazil hosted an interfaith gathering and invited representatives of multiple religious and faith beliefs to talk about life and death from the perspectives of their own traditions.
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INTERNATIONAL BUDDHA DAY 2021

Latin America and the Caribbean
Interfaith and Intercultural Dialogue

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.

 

Impact of the Solidarity Support Program

Latin America and the Caribbean
Arts
Community Building
Human Rights
Indigenous Peoples
Interfaith and Intercultural Dialogue
Women

As you know, it is not the institutional policy of URI to support the Circles of Cooperation with fondos. However, in the Asamblea Regional de Chile 2014, the possibility of providing some type of support to promote initiatives of the CCs that need support, given the socio-economic and cultural characteristics of other Latin American and Caribbean communities, was planted.

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Spiritual Reflection for the Day of Indigenous Peoples

Latin America and the Caribbean
Community Building
Environment
Indigenous Peoples
Interfaith and Intercultural Dialogue

Last Monday, April 19, the members of the Indigenous Peoples CCs of Argentina and the Cosmic Community participated in a spiritual reflection meeting for Indigenous Peoples Day. This activity took place at 4 pm, Argentine time in the Plaza de Mayo, in front of the Government House.Last Monday, April 19, the members of the Indigenous Peoples CCs of Argentina and the Cosmic Community participated in a spiritual reflection meeting for Indigenous Peoples Day. This activity took place at 4 pm, Argentine time in the Plaza de Mayo, in front of the Government House.