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Thousands of Catholics on Friday gathered for human chains and a memorial mass in Sri Lanka in memory of the victims of the 2019 Easter Sunday serial bombings, in which 269 people were killed and hundreds wounded.
Colombo, Apr 21 (EFE).- Thousands of Catholics on Friday gathered for human chains and a memorial mass in Sri Lanka in memory of the victims of the 2019 Easter Sunday serial bombings, in which 269 people were killed and hundreds wounded. On this occasion, members of the minority community highlighted the continuing lack of justice …
Indian Premier Narendra Modi laid the foundation stone for the construction of the Jaffna Cultural Centre, in March 2015, two months after the change of government in Sri Lanka, in the wake of Mahinda Rajapaksa’s shock defeat at the presidential election. Retired Supreme Court Justice C.V. Wigneswaran served as the Chief Minister of the Northern […]
By Shamindra Ferdinando Two civil society groups -NMSJ (National Movement for Social Justice) and Purawesi Balaya yesterday (21) urged the government to allow the burial of Muslim victims of Covid-19 in keeping with the WHO guidelines. Former Speaker and one-time UNP Deputy Leader Karu Jayasuriya and Gamini Viyangoda, on behalf of the NMSJ and Purawesi Balaya respectively, threw their weight behind the ongoing campaign to have the controversial ban on burials lifted. They pointed out that the UN, too, backed Sri Lankan Muslim community’s demand for burial rights. These civil society grou...
Former Minister of Muslim Religious Affairs, M. H.A. Haleem yesterday told the PCoI investigating the Easter Sunday attacks that although he had heard about the National Thowheed Jamaat (NTJ) by 2014, he didn’t think it was a violent organisation. He said so when he was asked by the Counsel representing the Archbishop of Colombo Malcolm Cardinal Ranjith, whether he had been aware of the NTJ during his tenure as Minister. Haleem also said that he didn’t know about Zahran before the Easter Sunday attacks. Haleem said that he had not known what had happened in Kattankudy until the Easter ...