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In an address delivered at Saint Ethelburga’s Church, Rev. Malcolm Stonestreet speaks of the history and future of the United Religions Initiative in the United Kingdom.

Charles Gibbs, Executive Director of the United Religions Initiative, writes in his October letter about the International Day of Peace, celebrated on September 21^st.

Dr. Tarunjit Singh Butalia, Secretary of the Interfaith Center for Peace
in Columbus, Ohio, and Secretary-General of the World Sikh Council - American
Region, offers his review of the June 2005 "World Council of
Churches' landmark international interfaith conference titled
'Critical Moment in Interreligious Dialogue.'"

July 2005 letter from Charles Gibbs, Executive Director of the United Religions Initiative, to the Friends of the URI around the world.

From Paul Chaffee, Interfaith Center at the Presidio

Blistering weather reports from Las Vegas notwithstanding, 140 interfaith
leaders from Canada, Mexico, and the United States gathered in southern
Nevada on August 12. For four and a half days the group explored a complex
set of themes – “Hospitality, Generosity and Sharing –
Interfaith Action in Our World.” The weather turned out to be dry and
kind, the heat tempered by passing storms. University of Nevada Las Vegas is
beautiful and proved an exemplar of the hospitality we were discussing.

For the occasion of World Environment Day (June 5th), I asked Dave
Randle to send an update on the status of the Call to Global Healing. While
the Call is rooted in environmental consciousness, you will find that it
has moved well beyond and has led the Utah URI Cooperation Circle into the
heart of conflict in working to provide aid and support to people in
need.

In his April letter, URI Executive Directory Charles Gibbs writes
"I refuse to live in an 'Age of Terror' … I choose… to
live in an 'Age of Transformation'." Please read on for more
of this beautiful and inspiring message.

Many initiatives were born or carried farther forward at the Second
Inter-Faith Action for Peace in Africa Summit, which took place in
Johannesburg, South Africa, in late April. Personally, I found the story of
the "Mother's Cry for a Healthy Africa" the most compelling
of these — calling for African women to "unite against
war." Please read on for the full story; broader coverage of the event
can be found at

Christian Today.

The fifth World Social Forum was held in January in Porto Alegra, Brazil,
bringing together groups from civil society who are interested in combating
the ill-effects of capitalist imperialism. The following report covers a
panel on "International ethics, religious conflicts and peace",
whose emphasis was the relationship of religion to violent conflict and how
violence can be overcome.

"As the year 2004 ended
with many unresolved violent conflicts among religious communities, a group
of volunteers of diverse faiths gathered in New Delhi, India to prove that
peace among religions is indeed possible." Also see coverage of the
2003 event.