Hindus laud Albania Orthodox Autocephalous Church for strong stand on environment

TIRANA, Jan 12 – Hindus have praised the Orthodox Autocephalous Church of Albania for promoting “respect towards the environment” and calling the exploitation and contempt towards nature an “unforgivable abuse.”
Acclaimed Hindu statesman Rajan Zed, in a statement in Nevada (USA), applauded Archbishop His Beatitude Anastasios’s powerful stand in this regard: “The cultivation of a religious conscience, with evident interest in the natural environment, constitutes the basic element of glorification and gratitude towards the Creator of the Universe.”
Faiths coming out in support of the environment was a remarkable signal, Rajan Zed said, and urged all world religious leaders, religions and denominations to openly bless environmental causes. Ancient Hindu scriptures, especially Atharva-Veda, were highly respectful of mother nature, he added.
We may believe in different religions, yet we share the same homeدur Earth. We must learn to happily progress or miserably perish together. For man can live individually but can only survive collectively, Zed, who is president of Universal Society of Hinduism, says, quoting scriptures.
Christianity came to Albania before the fourth century AD. Hinduism, the oldest and third largest religion in the world, has about one billion adherents.