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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.
In January, it will have been a year since elders of Ik Onkar Peace Foundation, a URI CC, passed the torch of leadership with the task of reaching the next generation.
An award ceremony was held in the WAKE CC Vocational Centre in Joy Sha, Lahore on 18 December 2014. Diplomas were given to 32 women (28 Christian and 4 Muslims).
“We take the rights of people under our protection,” said youngsters at the Annual Session on Human Rights, which took place on the 10th of December 2014 in Novosibirsk, Russia.
Today, the international community was rocked by the news of a Taliban attack on a school in Peshwar, Pakistan, which killed 141 people - 132 of whom were children - and injured many others.
2014 has been a remarkable year; 69 new CCs joined URI across all regions, which represents a 55% increase from the number of CCs who came onboard last year.