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Inter-Religious March In Rome Demands Action On Climate Change

Inter-Religious March In Rome Demands Action On Climate Change

by The Daily Eye Team June 30 2015, 2:11 pm Estimated Reading Time: 0 mins, 24 secs

Several thousand Catholics, Protestants, Buddhists, Hindus, Jews and Moslems marched through Rome to the Vatican on Sunday to demand action on climate change and thank Pope Francis for his encyclical on the environment. They marched behind banners reading "Many Faiths - One Planet" and "The Earth - Our Common Home - Climate Action Now!" to lobby leaders to take decisive action at a United Nations summit in Paris this year to stem the effects of global warming.

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Farrukh Dhondy


Farrukh Dhondy was born in 1944 in Pune. After graduating in physics from Wadia College, he won a scholarship to Cambridge to train as a quantum physicist, but ended up reading for a BA in English. He is the author of a number of books including East End at Your Feet (1977), Poona Company (1980), Bombay Duck (1990) and The Bikini Murders (2008). He has also written screenplays for film and television, including Split Wide Open (1999) and The Rising: The Ballad of Mangal Pandey (2005). His latest publications are a second collection of Rumi translations and his autobiographical memoir FRAGMENTS AGAINST MY RUIN"


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