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Find Yourself in the Global U/U Story

Unitarians, Universalists, and Unitarian Universalists (U/U) around the world are connected through a story of bold, compassionate faith that we’ve been creating together for centuries.

Struggling for human rights alongside those that demand it, influencing governmental policy in the name of justice, passionately promoting a message of interfaith peace and solidarity, and building faithful worshipping communities—each of us has a part, and a stake, in the story we share.

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  • The UUA's "Faith Without Borders" program is designed to assist congregations in creating and sustaining effective international engagement ministries.The latest update to the program is a resource booklet with suggestions for adding international themes to celebrations of St. Valentine's Day....
    By Eric Cherry | January 30, 2009 | From International Unitarian Universalism
  • Tsubaki Grand Shrine Scholarship Program The Tsubaki Grand Shrine Scholarship is available to Unitarian Universalist seminarians (in candidate status) attending non-UU theological Schools who have an interest in international and interfaith engagement. Scholarship recipients will be provided with...
    By Eric Cherry | January 13, 2009 | From International Unitarian Universalism
  • The Vice Bishop - Rev. Nagy László , Dean of the Marosvasarhely District and The Provost - Rev. István Kovács, Minister in Sepsiszentgyörgy...
    By UUA International Resources | December 17, 2008 | From International Unitarian Universalism
  • Eboo Patel is the Director of Interfaith Youth Corp and was the Starr King School’s President’s Lecturer at General Assembly 2009. On December 1st he posted his reflections on the attacks in Mumbai to the Washington Post's "On Faith" blog. My father's best childhood friend owns Joy Shoes in the...
    By UUA International Resources | December 8, 2008 | From International Unitarian Universalism
  • (cross-posted from President Sinkford's blog about his pilgrimage to Africa: uupilgrimage.blogspot.com...
    By UUA International Resources | December 1, 2008 | From International Unitarian Universalism
  • On November 4, 2008, Reverend William G. Sinkford, President of the Unitarian Universalist Association (UUA), will embark on a 19-day pilgrimage to visit six African countries: South Africa, Uganda, Kenya, Senegal, Ghana and Nigeria....
    By UUA International Resources | October 21, 2008 | From International Unitarian Universalism
  • On November 8, 2008, Reverend William G. Sinkford, President of the Unitarian Universalist Association (UUA), will begin a 15-day pilgrimage to visit six African countries: South Africa, Uganda, Kenya, Senegal, Ghana and Nigeria....
    By UUA International Resources | October 9, 2008 | From International Unitarian Universalism
  • For two months during the summer of 2008, Laney Ohmans, a Unitarian Universalist from Unity Church-Unitarian in St. Paul, MN, offered English language instruction at the Eklavya School for Katkari Girls in the Maharashtra region of India. The Eklavya School was founded by two of the closeset...
    By UUA International Resources | October 8, 2008 | From International Unitarian Universalism
  • Bruce Knotts, Executive Director of the Unitarian Universalist United Nations Office (UU-UNO), recently attended the United Nation's 60th anniversary conference - "Human Rights for All: the Universal Declaration at 60" at UNESCO headquarters in Paris, France. In preparing for the conference and...
    By UUA International Resources | September 23, 2008 | From International Unitarian Universalism
  • iPhones. MySpace. Viral marketing. Cell phones. No matter where we go, we are as connected as we want to be (and then some) to current technology, and through this internet medium, to one another. In many ways an informational smorgasbord, the internet experience is what we make of it; whether...
    By UUA International Resources | September 3, 2008 | From International Unitarian Universalism
  • Many Unitarian Universalist (UU) congregations have an annual tradition of celebrating a Water Ceremony/Communion early in September as a ritual of welcoming members of their congregation to a new church year....
    By UUA International Resources | August 21, 2008 | From International Unitarian Universalism
  • Dear Friends, You may have heard about 18 bomb blasts in Ahmedabad. UU Holdeen India Program (UUHIP) is partners with Self-Employed Women's Association (SEWA) in Ahmedabad, India. We thought we would send you a short report on what has been happening to SEWA and SEWA members so far. The following...
    By UUA International Resources | August 7, 2008 | From International Unitarian Universalism
  • During the past year the Unitarian Universalist United Nations Office (UU-UNO) has been making tremendous strides representing our religious movement at the UN. People who know the executive director of the UU-UNO, Bruce Knotts, aren't surprised....
    By UUA International Resources | July 30, 2008 | From International Unitarian Universalism
  • August 6, 2008 will be the 63rd anniversary of Hiroshima Day and there are many interfaith and UU resources available for congregations that plan to hold a worship service or other event.UUA President, Rev. William G. Sinkford offers a prayer for Hiroshima Day-Like most traumatic scars, the ones...
    By UUA International Resources | July 21, 2008 | From International Unitarian Universalism
  • Unitarian Universalist Association (UUA) President William G. Sinkford arrived in Sapporo, Japan on July 2, 2008, to participate in the "World Religious Leaders Summit for Peace" scheduled prior to the start of the G-8 Summit of World Leaders in Japan (July 5-6). The gathering brought together...
    By UUA International Resources | July 9, 2008 | From International Unitarian Universalism
  • Unitarian Church in Westchester County, New York, connecting U.S....
    By UUA International Resources | June 6, 2008 | From International Unitarian Universalism
  • This past weekend the Advisory Board of the UUA Holdeen India Program (UUHIP) met in Washington, DC. UUHIP is a very unique department of the UUA. It was established in 1984 with a mission to: "work with organizations of India's most excluded and oppressed peoples: women; dalits, so-called...
    By UUA International Resources | May 22, 2008 | From International Unitarian Universalism
  • Responding to the May 12th Earthquake in Southwest China There are many organizations that Unitarian Universalists can reliably provide donations to for humanitarian relief efforts in China: The Red Cross may be in a unique position to be helpful since they often have well-established cooperative...
    By UUA International Resources | May 21, 2008 | From International Unitarian Universalism
  • (Update: As of May 9, 2008, 243 gifts totaling $28,514 have been received!) Unitarian Universalists are invited to respond with generous compassion towards those suffering in the wake of Cyclone Nargis. Please see a message from the UUSC and UUA below: The Unitarian Universalist Service Committee...
    By UUA International Resources | May 7, 2008 | From International Unitarian Universalism
  • The Unitarian Union of North East India held elections for members of its Executive Committee on Sunday, May 5, 2008....
    By UUA International Resources | May 6, 2008 | From International Unitarian Universalism