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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.
URI members in the Middle East and North Africa region chose the city of Mafraq, Jordan as the site for its annual “helping the needy” winter campaign in 2012.
The Rev. Charles P. Gibbs, URI's Executive Director, offered this reflection on the latest Middle East crisis and the Thanksgiving holiday in the United States.
I bring you greetings and love from our rural children’s peace clubs and team at African Youth Peace Initiatives - Uganda. As we draw nearer to the Christmas festive season - around this...
I remember having the same feeling of excitement when I first heard about URI as I did about seeing wild turkeys outside my window. Both the turkeys and URI fill me with a sense of gratitude.
As leaders of the United Religions Initiative, we raise our voices in solidarity with the innocent civilians, Palestinians and Israelis, suffering from the latest outbreak of deadly violence.
The URI International Peace Research Institute is seeking stories about novel peace initiatives throughout the world for inclusion in an upcoming book.