World Fellowship of Buddhists promotes ethical treatment of animals

The World Fellowship of Buddhists, established in 1950 to foster cooperation between Buddhists of different sects all over the world, called on humanity to extend compassion and loving-kindness to all living beings in its final Declaration at its 26th General Conference held in South Korea last month. This stemmed from Ven. Senaka Weeraratna of the German Dharmaduta Society, who handed in a draft resolution at the conference calling for an animal welfare subcommittee of the WFB Standing Committee for Humanitarian Services.

You can read the full text of the draft resolution at lankaweb.com, available here.

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