URI Stories of Impact

Undeterred by recent political and security events, TRUST WIN - Women's Interfaith Network - celebrated World Interfaith Harmony Week in Fureidis, Israel, where 35 women took part.

The Coordinator of URI Campinas CC, Mostafa Bartar, and the URI Global Council Trustee, Salette Aquino, took office at the Council launch event with the presence of Arun Gandhi, grandson of Mahatma Gandhi.

Peace Center Lahore organized a training course for poor women and girls to gain useful skills and increase their quality of life.

The event was in honor of World Interfaith Harmony Week, and in observance of 'Tu Bishvat', the Jewish 'New Year of the Trees' holiday.

We enjoyed the participation of many religious leaders and institutions: Bhaktivedanta, Baha'i, Buddhist, Catholic, Gypsies, Spiritualists, Daimists, Spiritists, Evangelicals, Great White Brotherhood, Hare Krishnas, Indigenous, Jews, Muslims, Native Americans, Native Traditions, Umbandists, and Wiccans.

Interfaith Peace Building on Natural Resources Management CC celebrated World Interfaith Harmony Week 2018 in Cambodia.

A Bell for Peace and Friendship

“I believe that you really need to meet people and sit at a table with them...It’s been a dream of mine to try to do that."

World Interfaith Harmony Week was celebrated with Apolo International School.

Mário Nicolini, on behalf of the Forum of the World's Religions - Slovakia, and member of the Voices for a World Free of Nuclear Weapons, shares an update from his latest interfaith peacebuilding work.