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			<title>URI Africa calls for peaceful elections in Africa</title>
			<link>http://peace.uri.org/features/features_main/africaelectionrelease.html</link>
			<description>PRESS RELEASEMay 2010 URI Africa call for peaceful elections in Africa In 2010 citizens of 22 African countries will go...</description>
			<category>Features - Features Main</category>
			<pubDate>Thu, 13 May 2010 17:35:25 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title>URI - Great Lakes Sub-Region Launched in Uganda</title>
			<link>http://peace.uri.org/cc_news/africa/urigllaunch.html</link>
			<description>On Friday 30th April,the URI - Great Lakes Sub-region was launched in Kampala at Hotel Africana.  In attendance were...</description>
			<category>CC News - Africa</category>
			<pubDate>Thu, 06 May 2010 12:51:48 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title>An Ethical Imperative for People of Faith and Practice</title>
			<link>http://peace.uri.org/cc_news/north_america/mdgconference.html</link>
			<description>An Ethical Imperative for People of Faith and Practice  	 (Reprinted with permission from the Bay Area Interfaith Connect,...</description>
			<category>CC News - North America</category>
			<pubDate>Fri, 30 Apr 2010 13:44:28 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title>Karen Armstrong &amp; Ethiopian Red Cross Society appointed Goodwill Ambassador of the Golden Rule</title>
			<link>http://peace.uri.org/cc_news/africa/2010goldenruleambassadors.html</link>
			<description>Interfaith Peace-building Initiative (United Religions Initiative member in Ethiopia) in partnership with The Golden Rule Cooperation Circle  and United...</description>
			<category>CC News - Africa</category>
			<pubDate>Thu, 08 Apr 2010 16:17:03 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title> Lift up the Golden Rule April 5th- Sign the Charter for Compassion</title>
			<link>http://peace.uri.org/features/features_main/goldenrulechartercompassion.html</link>
			<description> For more information on the Golden Rule Day and the Charter for Compassion click here  </description>
			<category>Features - Features Main</category>
			<pubDate>Thu, 01 Apr 2010 16:44:45 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title>URI Welcomes Fourteen New CCs</title>
			<link>http://peace.uri.org/cc_news/global_news/newccsjan10.html</link>
			<description>On 
January 13, 2010, the CC 
Approval Committee of the Global Council unanimously approved 14 new 
Cooperation Circle applications: two...</description>
			<category>CC News - Global News</category>
			<pubDate>Mon, 22 Feb 2010 21:29:32 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title>Multi Region Cooperation Circles win awards for “My Hero” “Common Folk” and “Spirit of the UN”</title>
			<link>http://peace.uri.org/news/latest/multiregionawards.html</link>
			<description>Cooperation Circles in URI that are organized beyond regional boundaries belong to URI&amp;rsquo;s Multi Region.  This group is having...</description>
			<category>News - Latest</category>
			<pubDate>Mon, 22 Feb 2010 13:04:26 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title>Middle East and North Africa Regional Conference held in Jordan</title>
			<link>http://peace.uri.org/cc_news/uri_regional_assemblies/2009menaregional.html</link>
			<description>The URI MENA 7th Annual Conference was held in Madaba, The City of MOSAICS, south east Jordan December 17-20, 2009,...</description>
			<category>CC News - URI Regional Assemblies</category>
			<pubDate>Mon, 22 Feb 2010 12:21:10 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title>A Climate Change Call to Action from the Global Council of the United Religions Initiative</title>
			<link>http://peace.uri.org/features/features_main/climatechangestatement.html</link>
			<description>A Climate Change Call to Action from the Global Council of the United Religions Initiative The Global Council of...</description>
			<category>Features - Features Main</category>
			<pubDate>Fri, 12 Feb 2010 13:26:27 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title>Report from URI at Parliament of World's Religions</title>
			<link>http://peace.uri.org/features/features_main/uri_parl2.html</link>
			<description>Namaste!  I hope all is well with you and your loved ones.

Our Philippine contingent, Trustee Marites Africa and I,...</description>
			<category>Features - Features Main</category>
			<pubDate>Sun, 13 Dec 2009 15:03:15 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title>URI endorses Carbon Covenant</title>
			<link>http://peace.uri.org/features/features_main/crbncov.html</link>
			<description>Interfaith
Power and Light, a Cooperation
Circle based in San Francisco, is launching a new program: Carbon Covenant. This program links up...</description>
			<category>Features - Features Main</category>
			<pubDate>Tue, 08 Dec 2009 20:15:29 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title>Quami Peace Day Celebrated</title>
			<link>http://peace.uri.org/cc_news/asia/quamipeaceday.html</link>
			<description>Namaste and greetings from India. A newly affiliated CC called  Durgapur Sadbhavna Welfare Society  celebrated Quami peace day...</description>
			<category>CC News - Asia</category>
			<pubDate>Thu, 03 Dec 2009 17:32:07 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title>UN International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women - November 25th.</title>
			<link>http://peace.uri.org/features/features_main/unifem.html</link>
			<description>






This year marks the 10th anniversary of the commemoration of the
International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women.


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			<category>Features - Features Main</category>
			<pubDate>Wed, 25 Nov 2009 16:30:57 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title>Seattle CC founder featured in NY Times</title>
			<link>http://peace.uri.org/cc_news/north_america/nytstlcc.html</link>
			<description>Seattle, Washington, USA. Ten years
ago, people who would not have otherwise known each other, committed to
a year
of dedicated peacebuilding. One...</description>
			<category>CC News - North America</category>
			<pubDate>Wed, 25 Nov 2009 14:09:19 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title>Thanksgiving from the URI President - a day at URI</title>
			<link>http://peace.uri.org/features/features_main/dayaturi.html</link>
			<description>Exerpts from Bishop William Swing's letter of thanks to the members of URI President's Council.

At
Thanksgiving time I give thanks for...</description>
			<category>Features - Features Main</category>
			<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 19:40:26 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title>ED Reflections on International Day of Peace</title>
			<link>http://peace.uri.org/features/features_main/edidp.html</link>
			<description>Dear Friends,...</description>
			<category>Features - Features Main</category>
			<pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2009 15:38:13 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title>2009 IDP Reports</title>
			<link>http://peace.uri.org/features/features_main/2009idpreports.html</link>
			<description>2009 International Day of Peace ReportsThis page is updated as new reports are received.  Last updated Monday, October...</description>
			<category>Features - Features Main</category>
			<pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2009 12:17:45 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title>Jordanian CCs Bring Joy of Ramadan to Orphans</title>
			<link>http://peace.uri.org/cc_news/mid_east_%26_n.africa/jordanseedspeaceramadan.html</link>
			<description>On Tuesday September 15th, Jordan Seeds for Peace CC in partnership with Mercy CC, organized an entertainment program and Ramadan...</description>
			<category>CC News - Mid East &amp; N.Africa</category>
			<pubDate>Fri, 18 Sep 2009 17:15:01 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title>Computer Workshop in Rural India</title>
			<link>http://peace.uri.org/cc_news/asia/comwrkshp.html</link>
			<description>East Zone, India - Namaste and greetings. Below is a glimpse of our recently completed computer educational workshops that started...</description>
			<category>CC News - Asia</category>
			<pubDate>Tue, 15 Sep 2009 17:16:05 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title>Volunteering for Peace CC-Ramadan Relief Program in Palestine</title>
			<link>http://peace.uri.org/cc_news/mid_east_%26_n.africa/volpeaceramadan.html</link>
			<description>Almesafer, Palestine. With great pleasure I would like to inform you that Volunteering for Peace  (VFP) CC  in...</description>
			<category>CC News - Mid East &amp; N.Africa</category>
			<pubDate>Fri, 11 Sep 2009 13:26:13 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title>Bishop Swing Speaks on Interfaith</title>
			<link>http://peace.uri.org/features/features_main/swingsermonfaith.html</link>
			<description>This is a Christian Sermon given by Bishop William Swing discussing URI and how faith can be used to divide...</description>
			<category>Features - Features Main</category>
			<pubDate>Fri, 21 Aug 2009 17:13:58 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title>URI Represented at the 7th Conference of Mayors for Peace</title>
			<link>http://peace.uri.org/features/features_main/7thconfmayorspeace.html</link>
			<description>Greetings of peace and blessing from Nagasaki, Japan.  I am happy to inform you that URI was represented at...</description>
			<category>Features - Features Main</category>
			<pubDate>Tue, 11 Aug 2009 13:42:40 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title>URI President William Swing: A Vision of Peace in Pakistan</title>
			<link>http://peace.uri.org/features/features_main/pcpakwes.html</link>
			<description>A Vision of Peace in Pakistan June 19,2009 Pakistan is in turmoil.  A well-protected luxury hotel in Peshawar is...</description>
			<category>Features - Features Main</category>
			<pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2009 05:11:11 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title>Faith &amp; Neighborhood Partnerships Day</title>
			<link>http://peace.uri.org/cc_news/north_america/faithday.html</link>
			<description>San Francisco, CA, USA - On June 23rd, 7 young leaders from the Bay Area attended the Faith...</description>
			<category>CC News - North America</category>
			<pubDate>Mon, 27 Jul 2009 19:49:24 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title>ED Reflections on URI Ninth anniversary</title>
			<link>http://peace.uri.org/features/features_main/urininth.html</link>
			<description>Dear Friends,

Greetings of love and peace.

Nine years ago this Friday, 26 June 2000, the 55th anniversary of the
signing of the...</description>
			<category>Features - Features Main</category>
			<pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2009 00:47:01 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title>Computer Ed program in East India</title>
			<link>http://peace.uri.org/cc_news/asia/cmptred.html</link>
			<description>Namaste friends, and greetings from East India where we have inaugurated an ongoing computer educational workshop and various training programs...</description>
			<category>CC News - Asia</category>
			<pubDate>Mon, 22 Jun 2009 00:45:56 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title>New URI Partner: GLOBAL SPIRIT video series</title>
			<link>http://peace.uri.org/features/features_main/glblspir.html</link>
			<description>URI is excited to announce its 
newest partnership with Link TV's GLOBAL 
SPIRIT Series.  Watch this week's video highlights...</description>
			<category>Features - Features Main</category>
			<pubDate>Wed, 27 May 2009 13:06:50 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title>One Day Seminar on Women Empowerment in Pakistan</title>
			<link>http://peace.uri.org/cc_news/asia/womenempowermentpakistan.html</link>
			<description>A one day seminar on women empowerment in Pakistan  was organized  in Faisalabad, Pakistan,  on 23rd of...</description>
			<category>CC News - Asia</category>
			<pubDate>Fri, 22 May 2009 17:02:30 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title>Symphony of Peace Prayers 2009 in Pakistan</title>
			<link>http://peace.uri.org/cc_news/asia/symphonypakistan2009.html</link>
			<description>A beautiful ceremony on &amp;ldquo;Symphony of Peace Prayers 2009&amp;rdquo; was observed in Lahore, Pakistan on the 17th of May. There...</description>
			<category>CC News - Asia</category>
			<pubDate>Fri, 22 May 2009 16:41:22 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title>ED Reflections on World Crises</title>
			<link>http://peace.uri.org/features/features_main/edreflectionscrises.html</link>
			<description>Dear Friends,






Greetings of love and peace.






As I write this, a civil war is exploding in Pakistan that may displace 1.5...</description>
			<category>Features - Features Main</category>
			<pubDate>Thu, 21 May 2009 19:46:12 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title>Pakistan Contribution Info</title>
			<link>http://peace.uri.org/features/features_main/pacinfo.html</link>
			<description>Time is of the essence for the people of Pakistan. Please consider donating by May 27th. Donations will be sent...</description>
			<category>Features - Features Main</category>
			<pubDate>Wed, 20 May 2009 13:31:02 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title>Sufism, Principles and Dialogue</title>
			<link>http://peace.uri.org/cc_news/mid_east_%26_n.africa/sufism,_principles_and_dialogue.html</link>
			<description>Greetings from Palestine,  Volunteering for Peace CC in Palestine organized a conference entitled  Sufism, Principles and Dialogue...</description>
			<category>CC News - Mid East &amp; N.Africa</category>
			<pubDate>Wed, 20 May 2009 11:43:57 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title>URI Recieves 4-Star Rating from Charity Navigator</title>
			<link>http://peace.uri.org/features/features_main/charitynavigator.html</link>
			<description>The United Religions Initiative is proud to announce that we have achieved a milestone in our growth as an organization....</description>
			<category>Features - Features Main</category>
			<pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2009 19:21:19 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title>North America Regional Assembly</title>
			<link>http://peace.uri.org/cc_news/north_america/nareg.html</link>
			<description>Greetingof Love and Peace from North America,The second North America Regional Assembly, titled &amp;ldquo;Reconciliation with Self,Others, and the World,&amp;rdquo; took...</description>
			<category>CC News - North America</category>
			<pubDate>Mon, 18 May 2009 20:45:58 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title>Report on Bowes Award, from the SARAH CC in North America</title>
			<link>http://peace.uri.org/cc_news/north_america/sarahbowes.html</link>
			<description>Below is the report from SARAH CC of Orange County, CA, the North American recipient of the first Bowes Award,...</description>
			<category>CC News - North America</category>
			<pubDate>Tue, 12 May 2009 17:13:18 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title>Ibtisam Mahameed Reception</title>
			<link>http://peace.uri.org/features/features_main/ibtisammahameedreception.html</link>
			<description>On April 27th, 50 people gathered at the E O Trading Co. in downtown San Francisco to honor Ibtisam Mahameed,...</description>
			<category>Features - Features Main</category>
			<pubDate>Wed, 06 May 2009 18:30:14 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title>India East Zone Gathering</title>
			<link>http://peace.uri.org/cc_news/asia/indiaeastzonegathering.html</link>
			<description>Namaste Dear Friends, Greetings from India.  On the 19th of April in a beautiful dense natural setting, we the...</description>
			<category>CC News - Asia</category>
			<pubDate>Wed, 29 Apr 2009 13:13:57 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title>Executive Director's Reflections from Mindanao, Philippines</title>
			<link>http://peace.uri.org/features/features_main/edreflectionsmindanao.html</link>
			<description>URI&amp;rsquo;s Executive Director, Rev. Charles Gibbs, has been sending daily posts from Lanao del Norte, Mindanao, where leaders of the...</description>
			<category>Features - Features Main</category>
			<pubDate>Fri, 20 Mar 2009 14:07:24 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title>URI Highlights UN Year of Reconciliation</title>
			<link>http://peace.uri.org/cc_news/multiregional/un09yrofrecon.html</link>
			<description>New York, USA. URI-UN Cooperation Circle Launches the 2009 UN International Year of Reconciliation and the Gandhi-King Season for Nonviolence....</description>
			<category>CC News - Multiregional</category>
			<pubDate>Thu, 19 Mar 2009 18:01:23 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title>Peace does exist in the Middle East</title>
			<link>http://peace.uri.org/cc_news/mid_east_%26_n.africa/menapeace.html</link>
			<description>&amp;ldquo;There is peace in the Middle East, and we have seen it.&amp;rdquo;






This quote by Bishop Swing reflects the hope and...</description>
			<category>CC News - Mid East &amp; N.Africa</category>
			<pubDate>Wed, 18 Mar 2009 18:59:13 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title>Circles of Light 2009</title>
			<link>http://peace.uri.org/features/features_main/col2009writeup.html</link>
			<description>On March 7th, four hundred guests filled the Grand Ballroom at the St. Francis Hotel in San Francisco to hear...</description>
			<category>Features - Features Main</category>
			<pubDate>Wed, 18 Mar 2009 17:44:11 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title>URI CCs Celebrate International Women's Day on March 8, 2009</title>
			<link>http://peace.uri.org/cc_news/global_news/womensday.html</link>
			<description>First started as a political event in the United States in the early
1900s, International Women&amp;rsquo;s Day has broadened its focus...</description>
			<category>CC News - Global News</category>
			<pubDate>Tue, 17 Mar 2009 19:24:38 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title>URI Welcomes Seven New CCs on March 11, 2009</title>
			<link>http://peace.uri.org/cc_news/global_news/newccs3.11.09.html</link>
			<description>On March 11, 2009, the CC
Approval Committee unanimously approved seven Cooperation Circle applications: three from Africa and four from Asia.
URI...</description>
			<category>CC News - Global News</category>
			<pubDate>Tue, 17 Mar 2009 18:30:45 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title>ED Reflections on Dialogue</title>
			<link>http://peace.uri.org/features/features_main/eddlalog.html</link>
			<description>Dear Friends,

Greetings of love and peace.

Recently, I had the privilege of facilitating a dialogue on the Middle East for a...</description>
			<category>Features - Features Main</category>
			<pubDate>Fri, 30 Jan 2009 11:04:04 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title>ED Reflections on URI Global Assembly</title>
			<link>http://peace.uri.org/features/features_main/cpgga08.html</link>
			<description>&amp;ldquo;We write to you as the changing face of the world&amp;hellip;.&amp;rdquo;


 


These words, from a letter by URI&amp;rsquo;s young leaders,...</description>
			<category>Features - Features Main</category>
			<pubDate>Wed, 28 Jan 2009 20:19:13 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title>The Sulha Peace Project Brings Hope to the Holy Land</title>
			<link>http://peace.uri.org/cc_news/mid_east_%26_n.africa/sulha08.html</link>
			<description>We are mourning the loss of lives and are praying for the safety of our
friends who are in danger in...</description>
			<category>CC News - Mid East &amp; N.Africa</category>
			<pubDate>Thu, 08 Jan 2009 18:39:15 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title>URI Statement on the Mideast Crisis</title>
			<link>http://peace.uri.org/features/features_main/gzajan09.html</link>
			<description>Jan. 06th, 2009. Approved by the Standing Committee on behalf of the Global Council of the United Religions Initiative (URI):As...</description>
			<category>Features - Features Main</category>
			<pubDate>Wed, 07 Jan 2009 03:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title>Middle East Aid Opportunities</title>
			<link>http://peace.uri.org/features/features_main/meaid.html</link>
			<description>Resources for Contributing to Middle East Relief


United Palestinian Appeal
Main website (http://www.helpupa.com/) 


Gaza Emergency Appeal (http://helpupa.com/news/upa00068.shtml)
Donation Page (https://npo.networkforgood.org/Donate/Donate.aspx?npoSubscriptionId=1000640) 


 


Jordan Hashemite...</description>
			<category>Features - Features Main</category>
			<pubDate>Tue, 06 Jan 2009 19:01:51 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title>Burkina Faso President Receives URI Africa Peace Award</title>
			<link>http://peace.uri.org/cc_news/africa/bfaso.html</link>
			<description>Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso. Mussie Hailu, URI RegionalCoordinator for Africa, reports on a successful journey to present the URI Africa Peace...</description>
			<category>CC News - Africa</category>
			<pubDate>Mon, 29 Dec 2008 20:37:33 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title>Letter from URI to the People of Rwanda</title>
			<link>http://peace.uri.org/features/features_main/ltrwanda.html</link>
			<description>Kigali, Rwanda. At the request of Mussie Hailu, URI Coordinator for Africa, URI Executive Charles Gibbs has send a...</description>
			<category>Features - Features Main</category>
			<pubDate>Tue, 18 Nov 2008 01:13:12 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title>Children's Day Celebration - Kerala, India</title>
			<link>http://peace.uri.org/cc_news/asia/childrensdayindia.html</link>
			<description>Dear All, Below please fine the photos of a Peace procession under the auspices of the Karickam International Public School...</description>
			<category>CC News - Asia</category>
			<pubDate>Mon, 17 Nov 2008 14:07:24 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title>Reflections from the President – On the way to the URI Global Assembly in Mayapur, India</title>
			<link>http://peace.uri.org/features/features_main/bishopreflectionmayapur.html</link>
			<description>November 14, 2008
Dear Friends,
 
Now that I spend lots of time with Muslims, Jews, Hindus, Buddhists, and others, I read...</description>
			<category>Features - Features Main</category>
			<pubDate>Mon, 17 Nov 2008 13:09:20 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title>International Day of Peace 2008</title>
			<link>http://peace.uri.org/features/features_main/idp2008.html</link>
			<description>This year,
2008, thousands of people participated in URI observances on the weekend of
September 19-21, from Santiago to Trivandrum, from Helsinki
to...</description>
			<category>Features - Features Main</category>
			<pubDate>Tue, 28 Oct 2008 23:53:10 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title>TWO INTERFAITH ORGANIZATIONS IN ETHIOPIA JOIN HANDS TO PROMOTE PEACE</title>
			<link>http://peace.uri.org/cc_news/africa/ethiopiamou.html</link>
			<description>TWO INTERFAITH ORGANIZATIONS IN ETHIOPIA JOIN HANDS TO PROMOTE PEACE The Interfaith Peace-Building Initiative (IPI) and the Ethiopian Interfaith Forum...</description>
			<category>CC News - Africa</category>
			<pubDate>Fri, 03 Oct 2008 10:34:26 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title>URI Welcomes Two New CCs and One MCC on August 13, 2008</title>
			<link>http://peace.uri.org/cc_news/global_news/newccs08.08.html</link>
			<description>On
Wednesday August 13, 2008 the CC Approval Committee met and approved two new CCs and
one MCC for membership. All of...</description>
			<category>CC News - Global News</category>
			<pubDate>Mon, 15 Sep 2008 15:01:39 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title>NAINConnect 2008 in San Francisco: A Benchmark in Interfaith Dialogue</title>
			<link>http://peace.uri.org/cc_news/north_america/nain08.html</link>
			<description>A glistening San Francisco cast off its
summer fog for the first three days of NAINConnect
2008 &amp;ndash; Embracing Our Interfaith Future,...</description>
			<category>CC News - North America</category>
			<pubDate>Tue, 05 Aug 2008 14:51:40 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title>Father James Channan, URI Regional Coordinator in Pakistan, Recieves Two Prestigious Awards</title>
			<link>http://peace.uri.org/cc_news/asia/jameschannanaug08.html</link>
			<description>United Religions Initiative proudly announces
that in the past month, Father James Channan, URI Regional Coordinator in Pakistan, was
presented with two...</description>
			<category>CC News - Asia</category>
			<pubDate>Mon, 04 Aug 2008 13:41:53 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title>Press Release: Diverse Religions Establish Peace Council in Ethiopia</title>
			<link>http://peace.uri.org/cc_news/africa/peacecouncilethiopia.html</link>
			<description>DIVERSE RELIGIONS ESTABLISH PEACE COUNCIL IN ETHIOPIA
 
 
Religions and faith based organizations have a major role to play in...</description>
			<category>CC News - Africa</category>
			<pubDate>Tue, 29 Jul 2008 18:02:58 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title>Ethiopia Given First URI Environmental Protection Award</title>
			<link>http://peace.uri.org/features/features_main/environmentaward.html</link>
			<description>Addis Ababa , June 25, 2008
 
United Religions Initiative honored Ethiopia with its first Environmental Protection Award
 
United...</description>
			<category>Features - Features Main</category>
			<pubDate>Mon, 14 Jul 2008 13:35:19 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title>TRUST WIN CC &quot;TeenTalk&quot; Program Brings Teens Together to Discuss Religion</title>
			<link>http://peace.uri.org/cc_news/mid_east_%26_n.africa/trustwinteentalk.html</link>
			<description>Jerusalem. For an outsider looking in, it appeared to be a completely normal
gathering of teenage girls. As they piled into...</description>
			<category>CC News - Mid East &amp; N.Africa</category>
			<pubDate>Mon, 07 Jul 2008 15:31:33 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title>A CALL TO ACTION - INTERNATIONAL DAY OF PEACE</title>
			<link>http://peace.uri.org/features/features_main/cpgidp08.html</link>
			<description>Dear
Friends,


Greetings
of love and peace.


On
this 40th anniversary of the assassination of Bobby Kennedy...in these fearful
times of tyrants and wars of and...</description>
			<category>Features - Features Main</category>
			<pubDate>Fri, 06 Jun 2008 18:56:26 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title>SARAH CC Honored at Orange County Human Relations Commission 37th Annual Awards Ceremony</title>
			<link>http://peace.uri.org/cc_news/north_america/sarahaward.html</link>
			<description>Anaheim, CA, USA. On Thursday, May 1, 2008, The Orange County Human Relations Commission held their 37th annual awards ceremony,...</description>
			<category>CC News - North America</category>
			<pubDate>Tue, 06 May 2008 17:58:29 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title>URI Trustee Selection results</title>
			<link>http://peace.uri.org/features/features_main/tsp08.html</link>
			<description>Dear Friends,

Greetings of love and peace.

It is a joy to share with you the results of the trustee selection process...</description>
			<category>Features - Features Main</category>
			<pubDate>Mon, 05 May 2008 23:56:14 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title>ED Reflections: On Pilgrimage</title>
			<link>http://peace.uri.org/features/features_main/edpilgrim.html</link>
			<description>Dear
Friends,


Greetings
of love and peace.


&amp;ldquo;We all
begin and end at the same place.&amp;rdquo; 


These
words have been in my heart since I learned...</description>
			<category>Features - Features Main</category>
			<pubDate>Sat, 03 May 2008 02:32:09 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title>Dr. Nirmala Deshpande - Celebrating Her Life and Mourning Our Loss</title>
			<link>http://peace.uri.org/features/features_main/dshpnds.html</link>
			<description>Wed
4/30/2008 


Dear
Friends,


Greetings
of love and peace.


I
have just received a call from Dr. Mohinder Singh
informing me, with great sadness, that Dr. Nirmala...</description>
			<category>Features - Features Main</category>
			<pubDate>Thu, 01 May 2008 18:04:15 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title>Peace Building Training launched at URI Peace Centre in Tiruvalla, India</title>
			<link>http://peace.uri.org/cc_news/asia/pbitrn.html</link>
			<description>Tiruvalla, India. 
It was like a festival for the small village. The URI Peace Centre
became suddenly active for a whole...</description>
			<category>CC News - Asia</category>
			<pubDate>Fri, 25 Apr 2008 20:34:16 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title>Women's Trust-Building Workshop</title>
			<link>http://peace.uri.org/cc_news/mid_east_%26_n.africa/winsrk.html</link>
			<description>Jerusalem, Israel.  TRUST WIN (Women's Interfaith
Network) CC presented a workshop on  Trust - building  on Friday,
April 11,...</description>
			<category>CC News - Mid East &amp; N.Africa</category>
			<pubDate>Fri, 25 Apr 2008 18:00:27 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title>URI Pakistan Launches Website</title>
			<link>http://peace.uri.org/cc_news/asia/pacweb.html</link>
			<description>Lahore, Pakistan. It is with great joy that I would like to make this  announcement  that website of...</description>
			<category>CC News - Asia</category>
			<pubDate>Fri, 25 Apr 2008 17:28:18 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title>Stepping out of Poverty in Manila</title>
			<link>http://peace.uri.org/cc_news/se_asia_%26_the_pacific/pmcpov.html</link>
			<description>Manila, Philippines. Permit me to share with you the joys that I tried to savor for myself since 
the Peacemakers...</description>
			<category>CC News - SE Asia &amp; the Pacific</category>
			<pubDate>Wed, 19 Mar 2008 01:41:15 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title>ED Reflections: URI Supports UN Millennium Development Goals</title>
			<link>http://peace.uri.org/features/features_main/unmdg.html</link>
			<description>Dear
Friends, 


Greetings
of love and peace. 


As
a non-governmental organization with consultative status at the UN, the URI has
a responsibility to support...</description>
			<category>Features - Features Main</category>
			<pubDate>Fri, 14 Mar 2008 18:30:25 +0100</pubDate>
		</item>
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			<title>URI GLobal Youth Call for Peace in Gaza</title>
			<link>http://peace.uri.org/features/features_main/ythgza.html</link>
			<description>We, members of the Global Youth Cooperation Circle of the United Religions Initiative, wish to express our concern at the...</description>
			<category>Features - Features Main</category>
			<pubDate>Mon, 04 Feb 2008 15:07:19 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title>URI AFRICA Leadership Calls for End to VIolence in Kenya</title>
			<link>http://peace.uri.org/features/features_main/afken.html</link>
			<description>URI AFRICA STATEMENT ON KENYA

We, the URI Africa Trustees, and the Regional and Sub-regional Coordinators of URI, are deeply concerned...</description>
			<category>Features - Features Main</category>
			<pubDate>Thu, 31 Jan 2008 01:39:56 +0100</pubDate>
		</item>
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			<title>ED Reflections: Promising proposal to UN - Decade of Interreligious Dialogue for Peace</title>
			<link>http://peace.uri.org/features/features_main/adjan08.html</link>
			<description>Dear Friends,

Greetings of love and peace.

Once again, the world watches as ancient animosities are renewed with a
vengeance in the Middle...</description>
			<category>Features - Features Main</category>
			<pubDate>Sun, 27 Jan 2008 15:16:43 +0100</pubDate>
		</item>
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			<title>ED Reflections: URI Star Shines Brightly</title>
			<link>http://peace.uri.org/features/features_main/edrflstar.html</link>
			<description>Dear Friends in the URI,

Greetings of love and peace.

In the Christmas story cherished by Christians around the...</description>
			<category>Features - Features Main</category>
			<pubDate>Sat, 29 Dec 2007 21:41:55 +0100</pubDate>
		</item>
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			<title>Historic URI Asia Assembly in India</title>
			<link>http://peace.uri.org/cc_news/asia/aa2007.html</link>
			<description>Historic URI Asia Assembly in India 


New Delhi, India. Twenty-six
&amp;lsquo;doves of peace&amp;rsquo; traveled from Pakistan
and across Indian border lines to...</description>
			<category>CC News - Asia</category>
			<pubDate>Fri, 21 Dec 2007 17:57:20 +0100</pubDate>
		</item>
		<item>
			<title>Rio Inter-Religious Movement CC Celebrates 15th year</title>
			<link>http://peace.uri.org/cc_news/latin_america/mir07.html</link>
			<description>Rio de Janeiro, Brasil.  MIR CC (Rio Inter-Religious Movement CC) held its end of year event November  24,...</description>
			<category>CC News - Latin America</category>
			<pubDate>Sun, 25 Nov 2007 20:38:04 +0100</pubDate>
		</item>
		<item>
			<title>Women's Interfaith Network Pilgrimage to Old City Jerusalem</title>
			<link>http://peace.uri.org/cc_news/mid_east_%26_n.africa/trust1.html</link>
			<description>Jerusalem, ISRAEL. November 15-16, 2007.  Two days of ground-breaking events
just took place in the Old City of Jerusalem at...</description>
			<category>CC News - Mid East &amp; N.Africa</category>
			<pubDate>Sun, 25 Nov 2007 19:52:32 +0100</pubDate>
		</item>
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			<title>ED Reflections: URI Experiment in Global Democracy</title>
			<link>http://peace.uri.org/features/features_main/electns.html</link>
			<description>Dear Friends,




Greetings of love and peace.




It&amp;rsquo;s impossible in the United States not to hear about
&amp;ldquo;the election,&amp;rdquo; which is just over...</description>
			<category>Features - Features Main</category>
			<pubDate>Tue, 20 Nov 2007 19:45:17 +0100</pubDate>
		</item>
		<item>
			<title>Imam-Priest Dialogues in the Philippines Produce Impressive Results</title>
			<link>http://peace.uri.org/cc_news/se_asia_%26_the_pacific/imapr.html</link>
			<description>The Peacemaker&amp;rsquo;s Circle in Metro Manila Philippines has been working
tirelessly on local efforts to end the religiously motivated conflicts
in their...</description>
			<category>CC News - SE Asia &amp; the Pacific</category>
			<pubDate>Tue, 06 Nov 2007 18:08:57 +0100</pubDate>
		</item>
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			<title>URI Welcomes 16 New Cooperation Circles</title>
			<link>http://peace.uri.org/cc_news/global_news/newcc.html</link>
			<description>We are happy to welcome 16 new CCs to the URI Global network!  All of these CCs have a...</description>
			<category>CC News - Global News</category>
			<pubDate>Tue, 06 Nov 2007 16:10:37 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title>Iran Youth for Peace and Interreligious Dialogue</title>
			<link>http://peace.uri.org/cc_news/mid_east_%26_n.africa/iyprt.html</link>
			<description>The Youth group of IID,  Iran Youth for Peace and Interreligious Dialogue,  was formed in 2005 with the...</description>
			<category>CC News - Mid East &amp; N.Africa</category>
			<pubDate>Mon, 05 Nov 2007 16:07:28 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title>URI Europe Newsletter</title>
			<link>http://peace.uri.org/cc_news/europe/newsl.html</link>
			<description>We are very happy to present to you the URI Europe Dialogue-Letter No. 8. It contains news and articles, interfaith...</description>
			<category>CC News - Europe</category>
			<pubDate>Thu, 01 Nov 2007 19:00:47 +0100</pubDate>
		</item>
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			<title>URI Receives ECOSOC Status with the United Nations</title>
			<link>http://peace.uri.org/features/features_main/esocs.html</link>
			<description>URI has recently received official notice that the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations has granted URI Special...</description>
			<category>Features - Features Main</category>
			<pubDate>Mon, 29 Oct 2007 17:26:14 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title> ED Reflections: Dedication of URI’s First Peace Center in India</title>
			<link>http://peace.uri.org/features/features_main/uricntr.html</link>
			<description>Thiruvalla, India. On the
morning of 9 September, a group of URI leaders from India,
Ethiopia, the Philippines, Bangladesh
and the United States,...</description>
			<category>Features - Features Main</category>
			<pubDate>Thu, 04 Oct 2007 00:52:54 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title>URI Group Addresses Climate Change at UN</title>
			<link>http://peace.uri.org/cc_news/north_america/unclimate.html</link>
			<description>United Nations, NY. Deborah
Moldow reports that the World Peace Prayer Society and the United Religions
Initiative hosted a most successful...</description>
			<category>CC News - North America</category>
			<pubDate>Sat, 29 Sep 2007 23:37:36 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title>International Day of Peace 2007; URI celebrations</title>
			<link>http://peace.uri.org/cc_news/global_news/idp07.html</link>
			<description>United Religions Initiative ~ International Day of Peace 2007



URI Cooperation Circle members around the world enthusiastically celebrated the UN IDP...</description>
			<category>CC News - Global News</category>
			<pubDate>Wed, 26 Sep 2007 13:06:19 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title>Daily Meditation/Prayer Collection</title>
			<link>http://peace.uri.org/cc_news/global_news/pandm.html</link>
			<description>365 Prayers for Peace 


Each day we pray, personally and directly, for one of the URI Cooperation Circles.  We...</description>
			<category>CC News - Global News</category>
			<pubDate>Tue, 18 Sep 2007 18:18:15 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title>URI CC invites global participation on International Convention for Human Rights Project</title>
			<link>http://peace.uri.org/cc_news/multiregional/ichrcc.html</link>
			<description>Multi-Region. Lawyers, legal researchers, and citizens from around the world
are creating a human rights document. This URI CC wants to...</description>
			<category>CC News - Multiregional</category>
			<pubDate>Fri, 10 Aug 2007 16:07:50 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title>International Day of Peace - 2007 Preview</title>
			<link>http://peace.uri.org/cc_news/global_news/international_day_of_peace_2007.html</link>
			<description>URI Participation in 
International Day of Peace 
September 21, 2007  Plans 



URI Cooperation Circle member groups are encouraging each...</description>
			<category>CC News - Global News</category>
			<pubDate>Thu, 09 Aug 2007 17:02:43 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title>URI sponsors climate change workshop at UN</title>
			<link>http://peace.uri.org/cc_news/north_america/climate.html</link>
			<description>New York, USA- A new
ethic is emerging from the climate crisis, as religious, spiritual and
faith-based groups address our shared responsibility...</description>
			<category>CC News - North America</category>
			<pubDate>Sun, 05 Aug 2007 16:55:51 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title>URI Ethiopia takes part in peace effort of Elders</title>
			<link>http://peace.uri.org/cc_news/africa/etheldrs.html</link>
			<description>Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Greetings of peace and blessing for all of you 
from Africa. Here is a good news about...</description>
			<category>CC News - Africa</category>
			<pubDate>Sun, 05 Aug 2007 16:54:47 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title>Peacemakers’ Circle Conducts Dialogue Workshop &amp; Interfaith Youth Encounter for Asian Youths</title>
			<link>http://peace.uri.org/cc_news/se_asia_%26_the_pacific/iyenc.html</link>
			<description>In the Phillipines, URI's Peacemakers' Circle participated in a conference directed at building dialogue and interfaith work among youth. With...</description>
			<category>CC News - SE Asia &amp; the Pacific</category>
			<pubDate>Sun, 05 Aug 2007 16:38:10 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title>Children learn coexistence in Karmiel, Jerusalem</title>
			<link>http://peace.uri.org/cc_news/mid_east_%26_n.africa/coxml.html</link>
			<description>Jerusalem, Israel. On Tuesday, June 19th 2007, we held a day that marked the highlight of the joint activities of...</description>
			<category>CC News - Mid East &amp; N.Africa</category>
			<pubDate>Wed, 01 Aug 2007 10:32:34 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title>URI Pakistan makes long-term commitment to earthquake victims</title>
			<link>http://peace.uri.org/cc_news/asia/earthquake.html</link>
			<description>Sialkot District, Pakistan-
A URI CC in Pakistan
has been busy in recent years developing an organization that will defend social welfare...</description>
			<category>CC News - Asia</category>
			<pubDate>Tue, 31 Jul 2007 18:29:39 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title>CC in Jerusalem hosts interfaith gathering</title>
			<link>http://peace.uri.org/cc_news/mid_east_%26_n.africa/jerusalem.html</link>
			<description>Daliat al-Karmel, JERUSLAEM- On Monday June 19 the Abrahamic Reunion (AR) hosted a gathering of 100 Arabs and Jews in...</description>
			<category>CC News - Mid East &amp; N.Africa</category>
			<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jul 2007 15:22:05 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title>Latin American CC writes inter religious reflection paper</title>
			<link>http://peace.uri.org/cc_news/latin_america/reflection.html</link>
			<description>Members of Escuela
de Amor CC have written an inter religious reflection paper based on a seminar
they hold every Tuesday for...</description>
			<category>CC News - Latin America</category>
			<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jul 2007 17:08:09 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title>Four new CCs added</title>
			<link>http://peace.uri.org/cc_news/global_news/newccs.html</link>
			<description>Four new groups were approved to 
be URI CCs during the CC Approval Committee meeting on July 11th, 
including one...</description>
			<category>CC News - Global News</category>
			<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jul 2007 19:01:32 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title>URI Global Staff meet and  work together in Belgium</title>
			<link>http://peace.uri.org/features/features_main/gswrk.html</link>
			<description>Antwerp, BELGIUM - URI Global Staff members met in
Antwerp for
three days of shared work and re-connection prior to the Global...</description>
			<category>Features - Features Main</category>
			<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jul 2007 10:16:59 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title>Antwerp Belgium group hosts URI Global Council Trustee Meeting</title>
			<link>http://peace.uri.org/features/features_main/gc07ant.html</link>
			<description>Antwerp, Belgium. URI Global Council Trustees,
elected by URI grassroots members from around the world, gathered in Antwerp
for the 2007 Global...</description>
			<category>Features - Features Main</category>
			<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jul 2007 19:16:20 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title>URI South East Asia-Pacific holds 3rd annual regional meeting</title>
			<link>http://peace.uri.org/cc_news/se_asia_%26_the_pacific/seapac.html</link>
			<description>Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia- Moving forward in solidarity to build cultures of peace in the region, the 
Regional Trustees and leaders...</description>
			<category>CC News - SE Asia &amp; the Pacific</category>
			<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jul 2007 18:30:24 +0100</pubDate>
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