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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Fourth African Union Summit: Report

A report from the 4th African Union Summit, held in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia under the theme of “2015 Year of Women’s Empowerment and Development towards Africa’s Agenda 2063.”

Cooperation Circle partners in event to speak out against extremism

“This event will not make it to the headlines,” Koca said, highlighting the challenges that Muslims face when they do speak out against extremism. “But God does not judge us by the headlines, but by what we do here and now.”

Victor Kazanjian: URI Fulfills Dream of Interreligious Understanding

As I read the paper this morning in Kerala, India, I was startled to read the following: “If we can have a United Nations Organization, can we not have a United Religions Organization?”

CC Leader Receives Person of the Year Recognition

Rosalia Gutierrez, Of The Indigenous People of Argentina Cooperation Circle leader, received a great honor from Argentinean daily newspaper Cronica.

Sally Mahe: Interfaith Collaboration – Walking the Talk

In its early years URI embraced cooperation and collaboration. But we also found that “walking the talk” of collaboration – to develop ingrained organizational habits and practices of collaboration – didn’t come so easy.

URI North America Prepares to Celebrate World Interfaith Harmony Week

URI Cooperation Circles across North America — and the world! — will be celebrating World Interfaith Harmony Week (WIHW) from February 1-7.

Best NGO Honour Bestowed Upon Society for Welfare of the Handicapped CC

A unique institution in Punjab, India, the school serves 225 handicapped children and is a pioneer in North India in the field of education for children with special needs.

Interfaith Council of Southern Nevada: Addressing Social Issues

The Interfaith Council of Southern Nevada (ICSV) meets monthly for discussions. Last month, they addressed issues of social justice.

The Weekly Shot: Storytelling in the Altai Republic of Russia

Members of the Euro-Asia CC participate in a jubilee for renowned storyteller in the Altai Republic of Russia.

A Noble Beginning in 2015 - PEACE CC extends helping hand to disabled students

It was indeed a noble beginning for PEACE CC this year, as it extended valuable help to handicapped students. The brain behind this was Maitri, the dynamic youth of our CC.

Last month, during our meeting, Maitri Tanna, an active youth member of PEACE CC (Multiregion) came up with an innovative idea of mass collection of old newspapers, old paper boxes and selling them to earn some money and use the money to help two handicapped students attending school. She wanted to begin the New Year with a noble cause. As the old papers goes for recycling in a way this also helps towards environment cause, she said.

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