URI Stories of Impact

Something good is happening at Our House, the store that artists built at the historic Project Row Houses, in the Third Ward Community.

It was surprising to see the amount of enthusiasm of the newly formed Cooperation Circles of URI when the first year celebrations of the Badulla CC was celebrated on the 8th June 2014 at Hali-Ela Divisional Secretariat auditorium.

On September 21, 2013, Twekolere Women’s Development Association CC, along with other Great Lakes region CCs, gathered hundreds of students on International Day of Peace at Seguku Hill College.

From June 1-6, 2014, Dr. Emmanuel Ande Ivorgba, URI West Africa Sub-regional Coordinator, participated in a workshop to develop guidelines for young peoples' participation in peacebuilding in New York City.

Members of URI’s Global Council and Global Staff will gather in San Francisco at the end of this month to begin the work of co-creating the second chapter of the United Religions Initiative.

Experience teaches us that it can sometimes turn out very differently than one had hoped for.

In mid-May, nearly 1,500 participants gathered at Seidenweberhaus conference center in Krefeld, Germany, for “Dialogue Day 2014,” an event full of Christian-Muslim dialogue.

Inspired by the call of Pope Francis and his friend, Rabbi Avraham Skorka, to unite in peace, Julio Avruj of Buenos Aires, Argentina helped to organize one of URI’s newest Cooperation Circles.

Today it is World Environment Day, a day that has been observed throughout the world under the patronage of the United Nations Environment Programme.