“We are creating religious harmony and peace through education in a slum where there was no concept of education,” said Yuel Bhatti, a founder of ABC4All Pakistan Cooperation Circle and school principal. “We are trying hard to motivate the community that education is the only way towards peace and love for humanity.”
The UN counts nearly 5 million Palestinian refugees, and Tareq Altamimi, a Palestinian youth leader, counts millions more. So when he was asked to lead a workshop on Refugee Realities in Belgrade, Serbia, he jumped at the opportunity to learn more about the plight of refugees in another land.
URI welcomes new staff to guide URI’s Young Leaders Program after the departure of program founder Sarah Talcott. Former URI Global Council Trustee Matthew Youde will coordinate the Global Youth...
When Rowaida Mroue, 2010 URI Youth Ambassador from Lebanon, took an internship at Radio Horytna in Cairo, she had no idea she would soon find herself in the middle of a revolution. But there she was on January 25th, watching as radio staff defied police security to take photos and videos of protesters facing down tanks—images that helped mobilize hundreds of thousands to take to the streets...
A new Cooperation Circle from rural Western Kenya was welcomed into the URI community in February 2011. Indigenous, Seventh Day Adventists, Catholics, Muslims and Protestants, the members of Prolife Interfaith Kenya CC are working together “to socially and economically empower the youth and the whole of society” regardless of religion, race or creed. They came together in 2008...
Since the beginning of 2011, 15 new Cooperation Circles have joined the URI network, bringing our total to 511 grassroots interfaith groups in 78 countries working for peace, justice and healing in...
Last week URI helped celebrate the first ever United Nations World Interfaith Harmony Week, an initiative by Jordan’s King Abdullah II to promote peace among people of different faith traditions. Coming against the backdrop of a spike in violence against Christians in Iraq and Egypt late last year; the killing of a progressive Pakistani governor in January over the nation’s blasphemy laws; and rising Islamophobia across Europe and the United States, why should we expect such a week—or even the interfaith movement—to make much difference?
