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The October 2003 letter from Charles Gibbs, Executive Director of the United Religions Initiative, reviewing the URI community’s observation of the International Day of Peace on September 21.

The September 2003 letter from Charles Gibbs, Executive Director of the United Religions Initiative, urging observance of the United Nations’ International Day of Peace on September 21 and giving an update on Cooperation Circle and Global Council activities.

As a part of promoting U.R.I’s preambles, principles and purposes some the U.R.I. Cooperation Circles have taken up the initiative in checking growing environmental degradation by popularizing the tree plantation.

The latest in our series on various interfaith groups around the world brings us the Comfort Cooperation Circle in Luanda, Angola, who has been doing wonderful work with Leprosy and HIV/AIDS patients in particular.

Dave Randall writes: “Although it has taken over seven months to accomplish, I am happy to report that the Utah URI CC has been successful in shipping a container of food to URI Malawi, Africa. A container is about 80,000 meals.”

All over the world, people are calling for a future beyond the destructive cycles of violence that plague humanity. All over the world, members of URI’s network of 200 Cooperation Circles are acting to make that future a reality now.

At the World Social Forum at Porto Alegre, Brazil from the 23rd to the 28th of January 2003, 100,000 people and 5,717 NGOs from 156 countries met in order to share ideas and projects for an alternative possible world. The Forum's interfaith program and space called Kairos
was co-coordinated by the United Religions Initiative, which was represented by its Brazilian community.