Vatican City: Towards Diwali, Vatican, the seat of the Roman Catholic Church, has greeted the Hindu community, expressing hopes that interfaith solidarity can bring light in people’s lives amid despair and uncertainty arising from the challenges caused by pandemics.
The Pontifik Board for the interfaith dialogue sent by the “most friendly greeting” on Friday for all Hindus on the occasion of Diwali, also known as a lamp festival, on the theme “Christian and Hinduism: together bring light to time of despair..” Diwali will be celebrated on November 4 this year.
The statement came as Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday asked Pope Francis at the Vatican and held a very warm meeting and discussed with him various problems and also invited the 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 tradition, as a wisdom repository, during the crisis, has the power of raising slack spirit, the Pontifik Board says that they also have the capacity to help individuals and communities to rearrange their life compass with expectations, with their views remain outside their despair when this.
It is called religious and community leaders to maintain the spirit of brotherhood among their followers with the intention to help them walk and work together with people from other religious traditions, especially during the crisis and disaster.
“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.
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 the harmony between the nature and harmonious people and coexistence of people such as climate change, religious fundamentalism, terrorism, hyper nationalism, xenophobia can be overcome effectively because this is a concern that affects all of us “That said.
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.
The Vatican sends interfaith solidarity messages in Diwali
