Asia

STAR celebrated two important interfaith occasions, bringing a community together.

On October 7th, 2019, URI Asia Regional Coordinator in Asia, Dr. Fr. James Channan, collaborated with Golden Star CC coordinator Ms. Neelam Nisari to put the spotlight on the issue of gender equality, the 5th goal of the United Nations.

Members of the URI Cooperation Circle Interkultureller Kreis URI Bonn, as well as school children and others, folded more than 1100 origami cranes in memory of the victims of the A-Bomb having had fallen on Hiroshima in the year 1945.

Please give a warm welcome to the latest groups to join the global URI network.

We, at URI North India and Afghanistan, have celebrated peace in diversified ways and with people from different walks of life.

Two second-generation saplings, descendants of ginkgo trees that survived the nuclear blast on Hiroshima, were planted at the San Francisco Japanese Tea Garden.

The Asian Age newspaper published our success story. Our student, Miss Tanveer Fatima, came from the slums and just sat for her 11th and 12th academic standard.

This speech was given by The Rt. Rev. William E. Swing, President and Founding Trustee of URI, and Former Episcopal Bishop of California, at the occasion of the planting of trees at the San Francisco Japanese Tea Garden - saplings from trees that survived the atomic blast in Hiroshima.

Two descendants of trees that survived the nuclear blast on Hiroshima were planted in a ceremony that also honored former U.S. Secretary of State George Shultz and Dame Charlotte Malliard Shultz for their advocacy around nuclear disarmament.