The United Religions Initiative (URI) is a not-for-profit organization aims at promoting enduring, daily interfaith cooperation, to ending religiously motivated violence, and to create cultures of peace, justice and healing for the Earth and all living beings. URI is very active in Middle East & North Africa; its registered office in Jordan supports URI’s affiliate groups to contribute to peace-building and environment protection efforts in MENA countries.
MENA Cooperation Circles
URI welcome any people who are committed to promoting peace and religious tolerance. URI membership groups are called Cooperation Circles (CCs) which are diverse and self-organized groups created by people of different traditions who come together to initiate acts of interfaith, peace building, or even community service and environment protection. In Middle East & North Africa(MENA) URI has 53 CCs.
Quested Peace CC, representing URI MENA, and Al-Hassan Youth Award from Jordan along with 5 civil society building organizations coming from 5 countries; Spain, England, Egypt, Lebanon and Turkey, developed a three-session project aims at providing youth workers/ leaders with non-formal education on how to motivate youth and encourage them to be the positive contributors in their communities.
Oujda, Morocco - World Interfaith Harmony Week seeks to spread the message of harmony and tolerance among the followers of all the world’s religions, faiths and beliefs. It seeks to do this by promoting their common basis of "Love of God and Love of the Neighbor, or Love of the Good and Love of the Neighbor." Its message includes everyone, excludes no one, and is purely voluntary.
The Interfaith Center for Sustainable Development (ICSD) and the Konrad Adenauer Stiftung, are holding an Interfaith Climate and Energy Conference at the Mishkenot Sha’ananim Conference Center in Jerusalem on March 19th, 2012.
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