Vatican City: Towards Diwali, the Vatican has greeted the Hindu community, expressing hope that interfaith solidarity can bring light in human life amid despair and uncertainty arising from the challenges caused by pandemics.
The Pontifical Board for the interfaith dialogue sent “the most friendly greetings” on Friday for all Hindus on the occasion in the theme of “Christian and Hinduism: together bringing light to time of despair”.
The Pontifik Board said that a greater awareness of each other, interdependence and work solidarity can help the world emerge from every crisis better.
“Even urgent global problems that threaten to disrupt harmony between nature and humans and harmonious coexistence such as climate change, religious fundamentalism, terrorism, hyper-nationalism, xenophobia can be overcome effectively because this is a concern that affects all of us,” he said.
The statement came as PM Modi on Saturday asked Pope Francis at the Vatican and held a very warm meeting and discussed with various problems and also invited Ponff to visit India.
“Hopefully obedience to this party even in the midst of anxiety and uncertainty arising from the current pandemic, and the results are produced throughout the world, light your life, home, and community in the hope of a better future,” he said in a statement that.
Scars from the first and second waves of pandemics, who arouse the lives and livelihoods of people, have left people with a sense of resignation, despair and despair and “both of us Christians and Hindus can bring light hope for human life in life Humans in challenging time, “he said.
“Bringing a joint light in the lives of people through interfaith solidarity also validates the usefulness and resources of religious traditions in the community,” he said.
Noting that religious traditions, because of the wisdom repository, during the crisis have the power of raising the spirit of slack, the Pontifical Board said that they also have the capacity to help individuals and communities to rearrange their life compass in hopes, with their gazes remain beyond their current despair.
It is called religious and community leaders to maintain the spirit of brotherhood among their followers with views to help them walk and work with people from other religious traditions, especially during crises and calam-ity of all types.
“The power of solidarity is released in alleviating suffering and helping in need, more than that with characters and interfaith responsibilities, giving visibility to light expectations by entering the response of all religious traditions that are called at times that time despair and darkness,” said the statement.
According to Johns Hopkins University data, there were more than 246,082,500 cases of Covid-19 globally with more than 4,990,300 deaths.