URI Stories of Impact

Our community is working tirelessly to bring peace and justice in all areas of the world regardless of religion. Read stories straight from the organizers.

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URI CC Receives the Common Wealth Peace Prize

The co-founders of the Interfaith Mediation Centre, a URI Cooperation Circle from Kaduna Nigeria, West Africa, receive the first Commonwealth Peace Prize.

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The Power to Change the World

Meet URI's new Executive Director, Karen Volker - As I step into my new role as URI’s first woman Executive Director, I want to acknowledge and highlight that I have joined a movement filled with remarkable individuals and organizations that harness collective strength to create meaningful impact—from local communities to the global stage.

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URI Celebrates its 25th Anniversary with New Five-Year Strategy and Executive Leadership

United Religions Initiative (URI) is thrilled to announce three significant milestones in 2025, including a leadership transition.

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A Thanksgiving Reflection From URI of Northeast Tennessee

I remember having the same feeling of excitement when I first heard about URI as I did about seeing wild turkeys outside my window. Both the turkeys and URI fill me with a sense of gratitude.

URI External Affairs Committee Issues Statement on Israeli-Palestinian Violence

As leaders of the United Religions Initiative, we raise our voices in solidarity with the innocent civilians, Palestinians and Israelis, suffering from the latest outbreak of deadly violence.

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Institute Seeks Stories of Novel Peace Initiatives

The URI International Peace Research Institute is seeking stories about novel peace initiatives throughout the world for inclusion in an upcoming book.

Words From the Edge of Despair

A reflection and a rally to action in the face of anger and despair

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United Nations Celebrates International Day of Tolerance

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon issued the following statement on the International Day for Tolerance, Nov. 16, 2012.

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URI Africa Unites For Kibera Clean-Up

URI members throughout Africa took part in a special clean-up project Nov. 3 in the settlement of Kibera, near Nairobi, Kenya.

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Rev. Charles P. Gibbs Announces Plans to Retire as Director of URI

After leading the world’s largest grassroots interfaith organization for nearly two decades, the Rev. Canon Charles P. Gibbs has announced his decision to retire in June of 2013.

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Confronting Religious Prejudice in Europe

URI Associate Executive Director Debra Bernstein offered these thoughts during a recent journey to Europe to meet with URI members, civic and religious leaders in an effort to start some local programming on addressing religious prejudice

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Workshop Celebrates Faith, Diversity in Copenhagen

Members of URI’s Scandinavian Cooperation Circles took part in “Faiths United in Scandinavia,” a training workshop in the Danish capital of Copenhagen

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Euro-Asia CC Coopearation with Faiths Without Borders in Finland

We are glad to share with all the URI World Community our great experience of cooperation in the name of Peace and Friendship between two URI Cooperation Circles.