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.
Members of the Circle of Cooperation National Network of Agrarian Educators of Paraguay participated in the formation of a group together with members of the Armed Forces of Paraguay in Beekeeping.
Parents' mindset and engagement in the education of their children are paramount. Peace4Dalits Foundation CC has formed a parent's association to promote education among the Musahar community in Nepal.
Kiran Bali, member of URI Europe Executive Committee, represented the Hindu perspective, along with Christian, Muslim, Jewish, Sikh, Buddhist and Baha'i representatives, in an interfaith promotion of Live Below the Line, a UK charity effort that will challenge people to live on £1 a day for four days this May.
Excellent profile of Ibtisam Mahameed, Women Reborn CC member and Middle East women's peace activist in recent Interfaith Observer article by Ruth Broyde Sharone.
The United Religions Initiative is pleased to announce the appointment Dr. Potre Dirampatan - Diampuan, as Regional Coordinator for the South East Asia and the Pacific region.
URI Youth Ambassador Maxwell Ogaga was recently profiled in Nigeria's largest leading newspaper, Vanguard. Here are some excerpts and a link to the full article.
Take a journey into other worlds during the month of March at the University Museum at Texas Southern with the 1000Words | 1000Kalema Exhibition, March 2nd through April 1st.
Sixteen years ago today, March 20, I met the Patriarch of the Coptic Orthodox Church, Pope Shenouda, III, in Cairo. March 20, 1996 as an eventful day for me starting with the news of the death of the Sheikh of al-Azhar. Then I arrived early for another meeting, this one with the Grand Mufti of Egypt, Dr. Muhammed Tantawi. When we were talking, the telephone rang and it was President Hosni Mubarrak who summoned him for an immediate meeting. (Tantawi was soon after selected as the Sheikh of al-Azhar.) As we finished our chat, Tantawi said, "when the light of one religion burns, it is a great blessing. When the lights of many religions burn together, it will be radiant and bring abundant blessings." He counseled that the vision of a United Religions would be for the good of the world if it were "gently presented."