{"id":945565,"date":"2021-10-31T13:29:00","date_gmt":"2021-10-31T17:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=945565"},"modified":"2021-10-31T13:29:03","modified_gmt":"2021-10-31T17:29:03","slug":"vatican-congratulates-hindus-for-the-feast-of-deepavali","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/vatican-congratulates-hindus-for-the-feast-of-deepavali\/","title":{"rendered":"Vatican Congratulates Hindus for the Feast of Deepavali"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fvatican-congratulates-hindus-for-the-feast-of-deepavali%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=945565&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p class=\"subheading\">ROME \u2014 The Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue has published a message wishing Hindus a happy feast of Deepavali (Diwali), which represents the victory \u201cof light over darkness.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Vatican \u201cextends its most cordial greetings to you on the occasion of Deepavali which falls on 4 November this year,\u201d states the October 29 <a href=\"https:\/\/press.vatican.va\/content\/salastampa\/en\/bollettino\/pubblico\/2021\/10\/29\/211029f.html\">message<\/a> addressed to the Church\u2019s \u201cHindu friends.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cMay the observance of this feast even in the midst of anxiety and uncertainty arising from the present pandemic, and its resultant worldwide crises, light up your lives, homes and communities with the hope for a better future!\u201d the message states.<\/p>\n<p>In its message, the Vatican proposes to offer thoughts on how Christians and Hindus can together \u201cbring the light of hope in people\u2019s lives in such challenging times.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Vatican\u2019s message was sent one day prior to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/faith\/2021\/10\/30\/pope-francis-meets-indian-prime-minister-narendra-modi\/\">arrival<\/a> of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who met with Pope Francis in the Vatican on Saturday. Human rights groups have insisted that Christians suffer increasing violence and persecution since Modi ascended to Power in 2014.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>In its message to Hindus, the Vatican warns of a widespread \u201csense of resignation, despair and despondency\u201d caused by factors \u201cranging from terrorism to ecological degradation.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_18540426\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" readability=\"36\"><a href=\"https:\/\/media.breitbart.com\/media\/2021\/10\/GettyImages-1236244034.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-18540426\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/GettyImages-1236244034-1024x681-1.jpg\" alt width=\"990\" height=\"658\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>A vendor carries a bunch of roses at a flower market ahead of Diwali, the Hindu festival of lights, in New Delhi on October 31, 2021. ((MONEY SHARMA\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Following the coronavirus pandemic, \u201cit is within our ability to demonstrate that we can be \u2018together\u2019 and overcome every crisis with resolve and love, even the seemingly insurmountable,\u201d the message reads.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe power of solidarity unleashed in alleviating the suffering and assisting the needy, more so with an interreligious character and responsibility, gives visibility to the light of hope by putting in evidence the response which adherents of all religious traditions are called upon to make in times of despair and darkness,\u201d it asserts.<\/p>\n<p>Among pressing global issues that threaten to disrupt the harmonious co-existence of people, the Vatican lists \u201cclimate change, religious fundamentalism, terrorism, hyper nationalism, xenophobia,\u201d several of which may hit a nerve with India\u2019s current administration.<\/p>\n<p>Religious traditions have the capacity to help individuals and communities \u201creset\u201d their life\u2019s compass with hope, the Vatican message states, with their gaze fixed beyond their present despair.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs believers grounded in our own respective religious traditions and as persons with shared vision for and shared responsibility towards humanity, in particular the suffering humanity, may we Christians and Hindus, individually and collectively, and joining hands with people of other religious traditions and of good will, reach out to people who are in despair, to bring light into their lives!\u201d the message concludes.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"twitter-follow-button\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/tdwilliamsrome?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" data-show-count=\"false\">Follow @tdwilliamsrome<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ROME \u2014 The Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue has published a message wishing Hindus a happy feast of Deepavali (Diwali), which represents the victory \u201cof light over darkness.\u201d The Vatican &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":53,"featured_media":1888414,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-945565","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/945565","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/53"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=945565"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/945565\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1888414"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=945565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=945565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=945565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}