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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FACIS joined other CC's in comomerating the World Golden Rule Day in Bauchi State, Northern Nigeria

The Golden Rule Day event was conducted on Saturday April 5^th in the famous palace of the district head of Lere, in Tafawa Balewa local government area of Bauchi State.

Tafawa Balewa local government area was chosen to be the venue of this year’s commemoration because of the intermittent crisis that keeps occurring for 2 decades. The intermittent crisis created a huge vacuum of misunderstanding and religious disharmony between the Muslims and Christians. This led to having a divided community of Christians and Muslims in Tafwa Balewa LGA. Muslims are now afraid to go to Christian dominated areas and vice versa.

The Local Government Area (LGA) is one the 20 Local Government Areas in Bauchi State and is known to have an estimated population of 278, 674. The people in the area speak seven (7) different languages and comprises of Christians or Muslims.

PROLIFE INTERFAITH KENYA CC LAUNCHES A COMMUNITY-BASED ORGANISATION AS A POWERFUL TOOL IN COMBATING POVERTY.

Today at Mbale town in Vihiga County,Western Kenya,Prolife Interfaith Kenya CC which is growing very fast saw the launch of its Community-Based Organisation (C.B.O) whose main aim shall be to fight corruption and poverty in the society.

"Along this line, this shall help put all faiths in the communities of Vihiga County together and hence establishing solid peace and co-existence",said its Deputy Director Mrs Moreen Avoga.Mrs Avoga is the CC's newly elected Deputy Director.The immediate former Mr Onesmus Keverenge is now the CC's Executive Secretary.

The new CBO is known as:Maisha Kenya CBO.

Circles of Youth, Activism and Friendship

The Weekly Shot: Global YLP Training and Retreat

Participants of the 2014 Global YLP Leadership Training and Retreat celebrate after completing a collaborative art project with new URI partners Create Peace Project at San Francisco's Crissy Field....

URI Young Leader Sharon Vaswani visits San Francisco's Philippine Consulate

Filipina youth leader Sharon Vaswani paid a courtesy call to Deputy Consul General Jaime Ramon T. Ascalon during her visit to San Francisco.

Celebration of World Interfaith Harmony Week by PCSW&HR in February 2014

As the UN General Assembly unanimously passed a resolution to observe the World Interfaith Harmony Week annually during the first week of February. During the 1^st week of February 2014 the world celebrated 4^th world interfaith harmony week throughout the world. Pakistan Council for Social Welfare & Human Rights (PCSW&HR) also actively participated to celebrate the world interfaith harmony week. To celebrate this week PCSW&HR organized various awareness activities.