URI Stories of Impact

URI celebrates 21 years of peacebuilding!

In honor of Environment Day, URI members in Jordan made the most of their connections within the URI network and hosted a cooperative park cleanup effort.

Let us listen to Indigenous voices praying in sacred ceremony.

 I’m sharing specific ways that you can make a world of difference, locally and/or globally in the weeks around World Environment Day, June 5th.

New in 2021, the Faith for Earth initiative is recognizing Faith for Earth Councilors for their work on the environment.

Baraza CC, IFAST CC, TIA CC, URI UK and URI Europe organized the webinar “Living Together – The World is My Family” on the occasion of the United Nations, International Day of Living Together in Peace.

Two URI member groups, Youth for Peace in Bosnia & Herzegovina and AYEPO in Afghanistan, joined forces to celebrate the International Day of Living Together in Peace with the global URI youth community.

Last Thursday, May 27, 2021, the closing of an uninterrupted year of webinars led by the different Cooperation Circles in the region was held.

Today is a great day of joy and jubilation since with my lifelong neighbor Celia Primorak (focolare movement) and with the company and guidance of our priest Father Daniel Segovia we were able to perform for the first time, in the city de Tres Isletas "The first prayer meeting for Christian unity", together with the pastors, representatives of the different churches in our city.

Former enemies in an ongoing, deadly Nigerian conflict, Christian Pastor James Wuye and Muslim Imam Muhammad Ashafa reconciled their differences to stand as an example to their community and honor both their faiths' teachings to "love your enemy."