URI Stories of Impact

What an amazing year we've had!  After being part of the URI Youth Ambassador program in 2010, the fruits of interfaith co-operation are now flourishing in my region.  Our... 

See how the URI community celebrated World Interfaith Harmony Week 2011.

I spent the morning into early afternoon in my room writing -- finishing a short article on interfaith dialogue for Dialogal, a fine periodical published by the UNESCO Centre of Catalonia in... 

Last week URI helped celebrate the first ever United Nations World Interfaith Harmony Week, an initiative by Jordan’s King Abdullah II to promote peace among people of different faith traditions. Coming against the backdrop of a spike in violence against Christians in Iraq and Egypt late last year; the killing of a progressive Pakistani governor in January over the nation’s blasphemy laws; and rising Islamophobia across Europe and the United States, why should we expect such a week—or even the interfaith movement—to make much difference?

Greetings of love and peace from the Alhambra Hotel next to the King’s Crossing / St. Pancras Station in London, where I can hear the Piccadilly Line rumbling by in the depths below my second...