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Sri Lankan Catholics demand clarity on bombing report Cardinal Ranjith and protesters call for the government to publish the report on the Easter attacks in full Trending St. Sebastian’s Church, which was damaged in the Easter 2019 bombings, celebrates its first feast after the attacks on Jan. 20, 2020. (Photo: UCA News) Sri Lankan Catholics have demonstrated against the government-appointed cabinet panel studying the report compiled by the presidential commission probing the 2019 Easter ...

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Sri Lanka’s Roman Catholic bishops said Monday that they...

Catholics light candles for Sri Lankas Easter bombing victims Cardinal Malcolm Ranjith says no force can silence him in his fight for the victory of truth Updated: January 25, 2021 10:53 AM GMT Trending The heavily damaged interior of St. Sebastians Church after the Easter Sunday bombings in 2019. (Photo: Facebook) Renuka Malshi Nuwangi went to St. Sebastians Church in Katuwapitiya with her family on Jan. 24 and lit candles and prayed for all those who died in the 2019 Easter attacks. That even...

Cardinal joins battle to save Sri Lankas diverse wetlands Development projects aided by corrupt officials threaten Muthurajawela marshland despite its protected status The Muthurajawela wetlands are home to 102 species of birds. (Photo: Facebook) Environmentalist Nuwan Saparamadhu has been advocating protection of the Muthurajawela wetlands, an area of natural beauty that supports Sri Lankas fishing industry. Activists and villagers are trying to protect the wetlands from a multi-use de...

US charges three Sri Lankans over Easter attacks Trio charged with offenses including conspiring to provide material support to a designated foreign terrorist organization Trending The heavily damaged interior of St. Sebastians Church in Negombo after the Easter Sunday bombings in 2019. (Photo: Facebook) The United States has charged three Sri Lankans over the deaths of five Americans in the 2019 Easter Sunday terror attacks. The Justice Department announced that three Sri Lankan citizens ha...

Posted on January 10th, 2021 C. Wijeyawickrema, B.A. (Hons.), LL.B., M.A., Ph.D. Dear Mr. Austin Fernando: Thank you very much for your response (Jan. 2) to my previous essay  titled, Attempts to exhume the provincial council cadaver: a reply to Mr. Austin Fernando,” (Lankaweb, Dec. 31). However, I am not happy with your decision to stop our exchange, because it appears to me that you did miss my message. The attachment to my message in Sinhala is simple and clear, a...

Posted on January 1st, 2021 BY EDWARD THEOPHILUS People in Sri Lanka as well as in the world got an excellent message from Cardinal Malcolm Ranjith for the new year 2021 that nobody has been expected from a religious leader in the country at the religious controversy current environment that Buddhism is being a great blessing upon Sri Lanka. Rev.Malcolm Ranjith has been playing a great role for the Christian Churches in Sri Lanka that the recognition of other religions ...

An exposure by Russel Hewawasam (Lanka-e-News - 25.Dec.2020, 4.25 AM)  With the connivance of the present government, the most fraudulent procrastination and the slow progress of the investigations of the brutal Easter attack has revived a new discourse within the masses following the exposure made by Lanka e News on the 3rd of December. Several members of the Opposition in the Sri Lankan Parliament as well as several political parties have commented on this. But it was limited only a few mor...