Interfaith and Intercultural Dialogue

URI Cooperation Circles must include members of at least three different religions or traditions. By engaging in respectful conversations, members learn, share and build bridges of understanding.

Examples of our work in this Action Area:

Sun Devils Are Better Together (SunDABT), a university student group and URI Cooperation Circle, creates safe spaces for people to ask respectful questions about other religions by holding signs that read, "Meet a Muslim," "Meet a Jew," etc.
The URI global community celebrates UN World Interfaith Harmony Week (WIHW) in the first week of February each year, with grassroots interfaith events in many communities.
Campinas CC in Brazil hosted an interfaith gathering and invited representatives of multiple religious and faith beliefs to talk about life and death from the perspectives of their own traditions.

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Sherif Rizq: “My religion is not a threat to you” says Rita Semel

We meet a lot of people in life—some may leave an impact, others may go unnoticed. The influence could be positive or negative.

PEACE CC members participate in Corporate Social Responsibility conference in Jakarta, Indonesia

Peace Education Association and Center for Excellence (PEACE) CC took part in a dynamic discussion in Jakarta, Indonesia entitled “Corporate Social Responsibility and Sustainable Development” earlier this month.

About Two Mothers

It is not Mother's Day, yet I would like to write a note on these two mothers who are with Bishop Bill Swing and myself.

URI Founder and President Bishop William Swing visits URI members in London

URI UK CC members and friends welcomed URI Founder and President Bill Swing to London earlier this month.

Report on Launching Ceremony of Economic Empowerment of Women Project and Certificate Awarding Ceremony organized by Pakistan Council for Social Welfare & Human Rights (PCSW&HR)

Pakistani Council for Social Welfare & Human Rights (PCSW&HR) organized a launching ceremony of its project “Economic Empowerment of Women through Vocational, Life Skills, Cultivation training for kitchen gardening and Computer literacy” at Rawalakot on 1^st June 2014. This project is being executed by PCSW&HR with the collaboration of OBOS “The One Body One Spirit Movement” Korea since January 2014 but this project was officially launched on 1^st June 2014. President Azad Government State of Azad Jammu & Kashmir Sardar Muhammad Yaqoob Khan was the chief guest of this project launching and certificate awarding ceremony whereas Mr. Muhammad Ijaz Noori Chairman PCSW&HR presided over the ceremony.