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CCs take action around the world to promote peace on Sept. 21.

On September 11, URI and PBS39, a community-owned public television station serving eastern Pennsylvania and western New Jersey hosted a special September 11 Commemoration.  This event was part...

As the 10th Anniversary of the 9/11 attacks nears, and I have been thinking a lot about the parallel history of the 11-year-old United Religions Initiative. URI and 9/11, then and now. There were many...

Hello My Fellow Interfaithers,

It has been awhile since I have written on this blog, but I felt it would be worth re-activating it to reflect on some of my recent experiences, particularly fasting on the Jewish holiday of Tisha B'Av during the Muslim month of Ramadan.

URI has issued a new tool kit to promote religious tolerance and respect for diversity in the United States around the tenth anniversary of the 9-11 attacks. 

An important anniversary will be observed in Hiroshima, Japan at 8:15 am on August 6.  That is the time and date that the first atom bomb was used.

As Ramadan begins this year, I want to say thank you to millions of observing Muslims who undergo fasting...