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.
Last Sunday, Bishop William Swing, Founding Trustee and President Emeritus, delivered a sermon at Grace Cathedral, in San Francisco.
In his words: "Next week, we will elect a president of the United States. Among the myriad responsibilities that go with the office, none is of greater magnitude than the use of nuclear weapons."
Between August and September 2021, the URI AL&C Online Youth Training organized by the URI Global Program for the participation of youth was developed with the intervention of 15 young people from the CCs: Aflaiai, Constructores de Puentes, Teusaquillo, Mukua, Quinaroes , COEMATI, The Descendants of Guatemaya, Samay, ACRE from the countries: Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Guatemala, Panama and Venezuela.
Hon. Elisha and I joined other participants at the Special Dialogue and Interaction Session with the Regional Episcopal Conference of West Africa (RECOWA)’s committee on Justice, Peace and Development.
These three URI Cooperation Circles bring together the younger members of society and teach them alternatives to violence as way of resolving conflicts.
An "Invitation to Sharing Our Stories," as used for the 2000 Global Summit in Pittsburgh, PA, USA, and the United Religions Charter Signing that launched URI.
What if every faith center and house of worship would commit to educate themselves on the issue of human trafficking and then become catalysts for a broader public awareness in their neighborhoods and cities? It is time to work together to end this scourge in our world. Join URI North America for a webinar on May 27 to discuss how we can accomplish this!
When I got an invitation as a coordinator of URI CC “Euro-Asia” to participate in the URI Europe Conference “Moving Interfaith Work Forward in Europe” (April 23-26th 2015, in Plovdiv/Bulgaria), I felt that I should/must go there.
Principle 11 of the United Religions Initiative (URI) Charter says that “we seek and offer cooperation with other interfaith efforts.” The diverse community that met during URI’s formation in the late nineties envisioned that URI would be a different kind of organization in many respects.
This is to share with you the following PR from African Union on my appointment as Special Adviser to ECOSOCC of the African Union on Interfaith, Interreligious and Intercultural issues.