URI News Desk

URI will pray and stand beside Standing Rock as long as it takes for all Members of our Human Family to fully understand that your struggle is not only for the way of life of the Great Sioux Nation, but for the health, safety and well-being of all current and future generations of the Human Family and Life everywhere on Mother Earth.

See how the URI community throughout the world is celebrating the International Day of Peace 2016. 

Peacebuilders from URI Cooperation Circles around the world gathered in San Francisco in preparation for URI’s 13th annual Circles of Light Gala, which honored “Peacebuilding Through the Arts.”

The URI community gathers in the face of these global tragedies to send prayers, love, sympathy, and support to our brothers and sisters in Pakistan, Nigeria, and Iraq, and to condemn acts of violence worldwide.

Earlier today, Zaventem International Airport and Maelbeek Metro Station in Belgium’s capital city of Brussels were hit in a tragic bombing attack.

The URI family is saddened to share the news of Lokenath Chatterjee.

Deborah Ann Light passed away on July 21 after a decades-long struggle with cancer.

This year’s Circles of Light Gala highlights Cooperation Circles leading interfaith dialogue and peacebuilding through the Arts.

Beginning last year, four URI Cooperation Circles combined their efforts to serve communities spanning North America and the Multiregion.

The United Religions Initiative family is celebrating World Interfaith Harmony Week around the planet. We are adding new stories and photos to this page every day!