URI Stories of Impact

At a time when the human community is being challenged to find unity, as extremists fan the flames of division, and when humanity as a whole has become dangerously alienated from the Earth that sustains us, the COVID19 pandemic and the “social distancing” required has further challenged our sense of unity.

A group of 92 people traveled together through Jordan, Palestine, and Israel to visit sacred religious sites.

This time around with the new pandemic, as an 83-year-old, I putter around wiping doorknobs and watching, hypnotized, the numbers of cases and deaths climb relentlessly.

On 18th February, 2020, UN Chief Antonio Guterres visited Lahore, Pakistan.

Ciro Gabriel Avruj, a member of the Misiones Unidas CC (United Missions Cooperation Circle, a URI member group), delivered a Unit Awareness talk in Buenos Aires, Argentina on March 6, 2020.

As part of the celebration of the 2020 World Interfaith Harmony Week (the first week of February every year), a diverse interfaith and intercultural group from different parts of the world journeyed to Jordan, Palestine, and Israel under the theme of “Holy Land - Living Water.”

Read the latest Interfaith Link newsletter and keep up with stories and photos from URI South India.

The global URI community is coming together for a Global Indigenous Gathering - as soon as it is safe to do so.

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

A group of HIV-positive women in Mumbai, India, once shunned by their communities and reluctant to step outside, were given a tour of multiple faiths' houses of worship and welcomed inside each one.