“We, people of diverse religions, spiritual expressions and indigenous traditions throughout the world, come together to promote enduring, daily interfaith cooperation, to end religiously motivated violence and to create cultures of peace, justice and healing for the Earth and all living beings.”
- Excerpt from the Preamble of URI’s Charter

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URI is a global grassroots interfaith network that cultivates peace and justice by engaging people to bridge religions and cultural differences and work together for good of their communities and the world.

​The idea for URI
came to 
Episcopal Bishop
William Swing
in 1993, after an
invitation by the United Nations to host a large interfaith service in San Francisco, marking the 50th anniversary of the signing of the UN Charter. He asked himself, “If the nations of the world are working together for peace through the UN, then where are the world’s religions?”

Bishop William Swing