URI Stories

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.

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

Please give a warm welcome to Samira Baručija, who begins her position as the Regional Coordinator for the URI Multiregion on Monday, October 21. 

URI is the largest grassroots interfaith peacebuilding organization in the world, with more than 1,000,000 volunteers in 108 countries.

I asked friends of mine who are experts in this field – former Secretary of State George Shultz, Physicist Sidney Drell, former Secretary of Defense, William Perry and eight others – to join with me once a month to try to discover new ways of advancing nuclear abolition.

Len Traubman passed away unexpectedly on October 4, 2019. It is an honor to give him tribute and welcome him to the Celestial Cooperation Circle of URI.

“The world is now too small for anything but brotherhood.” - Arthur Powell

With this shared vision, the United Religions Initiative was founded nineteen years ago. The true essence of peace lies only in togetherness and kinship. In order to establish world peace, it is imperative to ensure that it transcends across religions, cultures, languages, and borders. Following such ideals, 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 Religions for Peace 10th World Assembly, under the theme “Caring for our Common Future—Advancing Shared Well-Being,” was held from August 20-23 in Lindau, Germany.

In the city of Buenos Aires, on September 28, an Interreligious panel on Religious Diversity was held for the Association of Argentine Female Judges.