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CIS RELIGIOUS LEADERS CALL FOR ECOLOGICAL, ECONOMIC PROBLEMS TO BE COMBATED WITH MORAL REVIVAL
Interfax
Nov 28 2011
Russia
Yerevan, November 28, Interfax - Participants in the CIS Interreligious
Council meeting held in Yerevan believe that immorality is the main
challenge of our time.
"The world is now in a difficult situation. Ecological problems,
man-made disasters, and the global economic crisis are making millions
of people desperate and dismayed. All measures that scientific and
economic problems can offer in response are either not good enough
or have side effects," the Council said in a communique.
However, the authors of the document believe favorable conditions to
ensure peace and prosperity in the world can be effectively achieved
by moral revival.
"We are hoping that the 21st century will become an age of morality
in the same way as the 20th century was the age of technological
revolution. In order for that to happen, the people of the world should
use the unique experience of the spiritual traditions of nations,"
the religious leaders said.
The authors of the document believe that only time-tested moral
rules can become the foundation of "proper political, economic,
and all other systems of national and international life."
The meeting participants also spoke about the events taking place
in the Middle East and Northern Africa, saying that "the natural
gravitation of people to freedom will not succeed if it leads to chaos,
encroachments on the religious freedoms of historic minorities and
human rights in general, the replacement of the real will of nations
with external ideological, political, and economic influences."
Interfax
Nov 28 2011
Russia
Yerevan, November 28, Interfax - Participants in the CIS Interreligious
Council meeting held in Yerevan believe that immorality is the main
challenge of our time.
"The world is now in a difficult situation. Ecological problems,
man-made disasters, and the global economic crisis are making millions
of people desperate and dismayed. All measures that scientific and
economic problems can offer in response are either not good enough
or have side effects," the Council said in a communique.
However, the authors of the document believe favorable conditions to
ensure peace and prosperity in the world can be effectively achieved
by moral revival.
"We are hoping that the 21st century will become an age of morality
in the same way as the 20th century was the age of technological
revolution. In order for that to happen, the people of the world should
use the unique experience of the spiritual traditions of nations,"
the religious leaders said.
The authors of the document believe that only time-tested moral
rules can become the foundation of "proper political, economic,
and all other systems of national and international life."
The meeting participants also spoke about the events taking place
in the Middle East and Northern Africa, saying that "the natural
gravitation of people to freedom will not succeed if it leads to chaos,
encroachments on the religious freedoms of historic minorities and
human rights in general, the replacement of the real will of nations
with external ideological, political, and economic influences."