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Title: Building Bridges Worldwide: UUWYN Mobilizes Youth, Faith Partners, and Communities for Global Service
United States, 8th Jan 2026 - UUWYN To Send Global Youth Delegation to Germany’s Unitariertag, Expanding Transatlantic UU Partnerships: Following the successful launch of its Building Bridges program—through which the Unitarian Universalist Worldwide Youth Network (UUWYN) (UUWYN) sent youth representatives to the 47th Annual Dávid Ferenc Unitarian Youth Conference in Kolozsvár (Cluj-Napoca), Transylvania—UUWYN is once again broadening its international engagement. This spring, UUWYN will send a diverse cohort of youth to the Unitariertag conference in Cologne (Köln), Germany, taking place May 22–25, 2026. The event is organized by the Unitarier – Religionsgemeinschaft freien Glaubens (URfG) (URfG) Germany’s national Unitarian religious organization. Youth applications to attend the Cologne, Germany conference are found here, youth seeking funding to attend should complete this application here.UUWYN and the URfG share a long history of collaboration, beginning with youth exchange programs initiated in 2008 by UUWYN founder Shahan Islam. These partnerships have continued to flourish for nearly two decades.“Sending youth from all continents to Unitariertag in collaboration and fellowship with Unitarian Youth in Germany is simply the next logical step following the successful onboarding of the URfG as a full-fledged member of UUWYN,” said Finn Prem the leader of the Bund Eigenständiger Unitarisher Jugend (Beuj) (The German Unitarian Youth Organization).The Unitariertag is Germany’s premier national Unitarian gathering—a biennial, multigenerational conference featuring workshops, worship services, cultural programming and the official assembly of the German Unitarian community. The event is known for its inclusivity, humanist orientation and alignment with global...
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