URI Stories of Impact

Happy Vaisakhi (also known as Baisakhi), the Sikh New Year! Please join us in offering greetings and celebration from the United Religions Initiative community around the planet.

As I embarked on the long journey to Cape Town to attend the inaugural URI Southern Africa Regional Assembly, I couldn’t help but ponder the context for interreligious and intercultural peacebuilding in this vast region with a very distinctive history struggling for justice.

Wisdom Circle Ministries, a URI Cooperation Circle, is proud to launch "The Language of Interfaith" a series of 5 online  Pre-Parliament World Cafe Events, in partnership with the Charter for Compassion Cooperation Circle. The first event will take place on April 27. 

Let me share with you how our URI CC “Euro-Asia” residing in Novosibirsk, Siberia tries to work in cooperation with many other NGOs of our city, other places in Russia, and internationally.

Members of the Cooperation Circle "Euro-Asia" gather with Indigenous creative groups to perform Russian and Siberian folk songs.

To our brothers and sisters in Kenya and Yemen, I have heard the devastating news of your land and your people.

Meet three Cooperation Circles who are working towards improving overall society health and living conditions. Through programs like hospital and cancer care, health camps, and water sanitation projects, these URI groups are using interfaith cooperation to make a huge difference in the lives of their communities.

This speech was given by URI founder and president Bishop Swing at the Holy See & Global Security Institute's United Nations program "Nuclear Weapons and the Moral Compass" on April 9.

This prayer was written by the United Religions Initiative founder for “those whose hearts carry the weight of nuclear weapons.”