Interfaith Leaders From Across The World Pledge To Protect Rivers, Glaciers

PNS | Rishikesh

Interfaith leaders from across the world have come together in Assisi, home of Saint Francis, as part of a Peace Pledge Pilgrimage to walk and work for peace and protection of water.

President of Parmarth Niketan, Swami Chidanand Saraswati and secretary, General of Global Interfaith WASH Alliance, Sadhvi Bhagawati Saraswati offered the holy water of Ganga collected from Gaumukh to mix with the waters of the glaciers of Greenland as part of the interfaith peace pledge. They pledged to live by, teach and take the peace pledge to their communities as well as to the world leaders, the United Nations, religious leaders, Parliamentarians, and the world community, inviting all to join the affirmation of the necessity and importance of kindness and compassion towards the rivers.

Swami Chidanand Saraswati had taken the sacred water of the Ganga collected from its fount Gaumukh which was offered along with the water from the Greenland glaciers collected by some of the peace pilgrims who had earlier travelled to Greenland and witnessed the enormity of the tragedy of the melting of the polar ice cap. Both waters were ceremonially mixed together into a heart-shaped vessel, […]

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