Multiregion

Please enjoy reading the following reports, sent in by URI Cooperation Circles around the world, of celebrations for World Interfaith Harmony Week 2015.

The Building Creative Communities Conference mission is to motivate, encourage, empower and inspire community advocates by sharing ideas, learning new skills, and fostering positive change. 

As I read the paper this morning in Kerala, India, I was startled to read the following: “If we can have a United Nations Organization, can we not have a United Religions Organization?”

It was indeed a noble beginning for PEACE CC this year, as it extended valuable help to handicapped students. The brain behind this was Maitri, the dynamic youth of our CC.

Last month, during our meeting, Maitri Tanna, an active youth member of PEACE CC (Multiregion) came up with an innovative idea of mass collection of old newspapers, old paper boxes and selling them to earn some money and use the money to help two handicapped students attending school. She wanted to begin the New Year with a noble cause. As the old papers goes for recycling in a way this also helps towards environment cause, she said.

In the wake of the terrorist tragedy in Paris, France, URI Cooperation Circle CARAVAN announces its upcoming interfaith peace-building art exhibition titled THE BRIDGE.

Cooperation Circle Trail of Dreams, led by Audri Scott Williams, celebrates World Interfaith Harmony Week in 2011 with URI’s representative at the UN, Monica Willard. 

Yesterday, the world was rocked yet again by tragic news motivated to inspire fear in people’s hearts.

CC profiles are a part of our ongoing efforts to strengthen the URI network by providing quality, in-depth information about the work of our cooperation circles.