Nevada, US, November 23, 2010:

(From Our Correspondent) Hindus have sent greetings to Christian communities world over for Advent season.

Prominent Hindu statesman Rajan Zed, in a statement in Nevada (USA) today, expressed warmest greetings on the Advent season; wishing that it brought joy, peace, and blessings to all.

Rajan Zed, who is president of Universal Society of Hinduism, stressed that all religions should work together for a just and peaceful world. Dialogue would bring us mutual enrichment, he added.

Advent is the ecclesiastical season immediately before Christmas. In Western Christianity, it begins on the fourth Sunday prior to Christmas Day, which is November 28 this year. Christianity is the largest religion of the world, while Hinduism with about one billion adherents is the oldest and third largest.