URI Stories of Impact

These past months have brought wonder and awe inspired by Holy Days in many of the religious, spiritual, and Indigenous traditions of the world. But these past months have also brought fear.

We send thoughts of love, peace, and joy throughout the 1041 Cooperation Circles (URI member groups) who are currently working in 108 countries.

Interview with Nasim Mansuri, Convener of Roshini CC (a URI Cooperation Circle in Ahmedabad, India).

Watch URI’s interfaith special with your loved ones.

With deep dismay, we, members of the Cooperation Circles of URI Latin America and the Caribbean that have Indigenous representation, declare the following.

The Jewish holiday of Hanukkah (also spelled Chanukah or Hanukah) begins on sundown on December 22 of this year and will continue until sundown on the 30th.

Our human community is in a deepening spiral of conflict, and the planet, which sustains us and all life, careens towards climate disaster. How are we people of diverse religions, spiritual expressions and Indigenous traditions throughout the world who comprise URI called to respond?

In Panama, the members of the Mukua Cooperation Circle met to pay tribute to Fany Ávila. This took place three months after her physical disappearance.

We had a hug of reconciliation to represent forgiveness and universal love between the descendants of the Indigenous people and the descendants of the people who came to the land.