United Religions Initiative (URI) was founded in 2000 by an extraordinary global community committed to promoting enduring, daily interfaith cooperation and to ending religiously motivated violence. Today the URI includes thousands of members in over 65 countries representing more than 100 religions, spiritual expressions, and indigenous traditions.
Cooperation Circles
URI membership groups are called Cooperation Circles because they are created by people of different traditions who come together to initiate acts of interfaith cooperation. CCs, which are the basic unit of URI membership, consist of local or virtual groups that include at least seven members and at least three different religions, spiritual expressions and indigenous traditions.
With the advent of the Holy month of Ramadan URI CCs in Jordan started planning for their Ramadani projects that focus on helping the needy people in Jordan.
Since URI reaches the unreached, the URI folks decided to distribute food packages in Al Azraq (الأزرق); a small town located in the central-eastern of Jordan around 140 km from the center of Amman. According to the Jordan National Census of 2004, the population of Azraq was 9,000 persons, of whom 7,625 (84.5%) were Jordanian citizens and most of them are Druze and Chechnya. It is one of the poorest areas in Jordan.
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