URI to Host International Conference on Interfaith Action in Global Peacebuilding

United Religions Initiative (URI) is a partner of the Parliament of the World’s Religions within the interfaith movement and in the pursuit of a more peaceful, just and sustainable world.

We are delighted to learn that URI will be hosting the international conference titled Accelerate Peace: Interfaith Action in Global Peacebuilding, June 26-27, 2019 at the Hoover Institution on the Stanford University campus.

Parliament Chair, Audrey E. Kitagawa, will join the conference as a key panelists on Wednesday, June 26th and share the stage along with Rev. Jennifer Bailey, Radia Bakkouch, Rabbi Daniel L. Lehmann, Michael G. Pappas and Rev. Victor Kazanjian in the program Peacebuilding through Promoting Enduring Daily Interfaith Cooperation: From Dialogue to Action.

Parliament Represented at UN Day of Vesak 2019

Parliament of the World's Religions Chair, Audrey E. Kitagawa attended Vesak 2019 hosted on May 12-14, 2019. The UN General Assembly, by its resolution 54/115 of 1999, recognized internationally the Day of Vesak to acknowledge the contribution that Buddhism, one of the oldest religions in the world, has made for over two and a half millennia and continues to make to the spirituality of humanity. Celebrated annually on May 17th, the official Vesak conference was hosted for the third time this year in Vietnam.

Parliament Trustee Recognized for Commitment to Community

The Parliament of the World's Religions congratulates Saffet Catovic, a Trustee and member of our Climate Action Task Force, for receiving the New Jersey State Governor’s Jefferson Award.

Saffet serves as Co-chair and Founder of the Green Muslims of New Jersey and is deeply involved in the Green Ramadan movement. He was integral to the drafting of the Islamic Declaration on Climate Change and is an advisor to the Muslim Student Association at Drew University.

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