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Last Sunday, Bishop William Swing, Founding Trustee and President Emeritus, delivered a sermon at Grace Cathedral, in San Francisco.
In his words: "Next week, we will elect a president of the United States. Among the myriad responsibilities that go with the office, none is of greater magnitude than the use of nuclear weapons."
Between August and September 2021, the URI AL&C Online Youth Training organized by the URI Global Program for the participation of youth was developed with the intervention of 15 young people from the CCs: Aflaiai, Constructores de Puentes, Teusaquillo, Mukua, Quinaroes , COEMATI, The Descendants of Guatemaya, Samay, ACRE from the countries: Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Guatemala, Panama and Venezuela.
Pakistan Council for Social Welfare & Human Rights organized the inter-religious harmony ceremony with the collaboration of Dioceses of Sialkot at Hunter Memorial Church Hunter Pura Sialkot.
In the early 1980’s, I invited Sidney Drell, a renowned physicist from Stanford University, to speak at Grace Cathedral about nuclear weapons. That occasion was the start of a twenty-five-year friendship.
URI-Africa participated at the consultation meeting on the “Promotion of Peaceful Africa” organized by All Africa Conference of Churches (AACC) in partnership with the African Union (AU) at Desmond Tutu Conference Centre in Nairobi.
The 2nd AU-Interfaith Dialogue Forum Declaration follows two days of deep reflections, deliberations, sharing of experiences and discussions on the way forward on the theme of the conference.
William K. (Bill) Bowes, Jr. died on Wednesday, December 28, 2016 in San Francisco after a long illness. Bill was a beloved member of the President's Council and a pioneer philanthropist in URI.
On the occasion of the UN Day of Tolerance (November 16) the Sultanate of Oman is hosting an international conference in Oman on "Growing a Network - Tolerance, Understanding, Coexistence - Oman's Message of Islam". Karimah Stauch, European URI Coordinator, was invited to participate.
Last holiday season, Kashi Foundation, a URI North America Cooperation Circle, organized volunteers to visit a nearby impoverished community to provide food and other essentials to the residents there.
URI Europe participated in the First Symposium on Interfaith and Intercultural Dialogue, “Connecting Actions” at Salle Paris at the FIAP. The conference was held to overcome the tendency to stigmatize Muslims, Jews, and immigrants, and how to deconstruct stereotypes.