URI Stories of Impact

Hannington Wako, a longtime volunteer and leader for URI in Africa’s Great Lakes Region, has become the network’s Young Leaders Program Associate for Africa.

URI’s Executive Director, the Rev. Canon Charles Gibbs, is the featured guest this Sunday on “MOSAIC,” a weekly show about spirituality airing in the San Francisco Bay Area.

The tenth item in URI’s list of principles – “We act from sound ecological practices to protect and preserve the Earth for both present and future generations” – might seem a little peculiar to someone who thinks of URI primarily as an interfaith organization devoted to peace.

A delegation of senior religious leaders from the Buddhist, Christian, Jewish and Muslim faiths discussed the need for spiritual leadership on environmental issues during a conference in Kiev. 

Water – and its capacity to sustain life – took center stage at a special presentation by URI members at Rio+20, the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development.

The notion that global climate change is not merely “an inconvenient truth” was at the heart of an interfaith conference on the environment held in Jerusalem March 19.