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At the turn of the new year, Mussie Hailu, Vice Chair of the United Religions Initiative’s (URI) Global Council, wrote a touching and inspiring letter to URI members worldwide. Though written specifically to the URI, its content is broad and I commend it to all participants in the global interfaith movement.

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.

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.

In his February "Executive Director's Letter", Charles Gibbs
urges URI Cooperation Circles to join in support for three major United
Nations' observances in 2005: World Environment Day, the 60th Anniversary
of the UN Charter (and 5th for the URI's), adn the International Day of
Peace

Report and summary from a recent workshop on the Millennium Development
Goals provided by the United Religions Intitiative at the United Nations
Cooperation Circle.

In his latest communication to the URI community, Executive Director Charles Gibbs highlights three of the dozens (hundreds?) of URI-related observations and celebrations of the International Day of Peace coming on September 21. He additionally gives several excellent examples of ways that organizations and communities can participate.