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People celebrate Diwali with the lighting of oil lamps, fireworks and gatherings to symbolize the victory of light over darkness and good over evil. Christians and Hindus must promote harmony among all groups of people despite their differences, especially when ideologies increasingly seek to sow division, the Vatican wrote in a message for the Hindu celebration of Diwali.
Increasingly, people of different"cultures, religions, ethnicities, languages and ideologies live side by side, either by choice or chance, in almost every part of the globe," said the message signed by Cardinal Miguel Ayuso Guixot, dicastery prefect, and Msgr. Indunil Janakaratne Kodithuwakku, dicastery secretary.
Often, God's vision of harmony"is supplanted by ideologies that favor exclusion, discrimination and conformity on both the individual and collective level," they wrote.
Diwali, the Hindu festival of lights, is celebrated with the lighting of oil lamps, fireworks and gatherings to symbolize the victory of light over darkness and good over evil. Though celebrations for Diwali span several days, this year many Hindus worldwide will primarily celebrate the holiday on Oct. 31.
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