Colombo, Apr 24, 2019: The Archbishop of Colombo says that government officials in Sri Lanka should be fired for failing to act on tips that terrorists attacks were imminent in the hours preceding Easter Sunday bombings in the country. “It’s absolutely unacceptable behavior on the part of these high officialsContinue Reading
By Jeffrey Gettleman and Dharisha Bastians Negombo, April 25, 2019: Auranzeb Zabi was cooking rice at a friend’s house on April 24 when he heard angry shouting outside, looked out the window and saw a mob of Sri Lankan men carrying iron bars. A day after the Islamic State claimedContinue Reading
Pugoda, Sri Lanka, April 25, 2019: An explosion occurred in a town east of the Sri Lankan capital, Colombo, on April 25 but there were no casualties, a police spokesman said. Spokesperson Ruwan Gunasekera said police were investigating the blast on empty land behind the magistrate’s court in Pugoda, 40Continue Reading
By Sujata Jena Rome, April 25, 2019: As many as 52 priest and nuns from 19 countries are currently undergoing a training program in Rome to become development personnel. “Many congregations today experience a bottle neck situation, of drying of traditional sources and emergence of new mission territories demanding financialContinue Reading
April 24, 2019: Sara Hinesley, 10, doesn’t understand why it’s so remarkable that she won a national handwriting competition. She paints and draws and sculpts clay. She can write in English and some Mandarin. When she learned to write in cursive this year, Sara said, she thought it was “kindContinue Reading
Matters India reporter Yangon, April 24, 2019: Federation of Asian Bishops’ Conference (FABC) president Charles Cardinal Maung Bo has sent a message of prayerful solidarity to Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle of the Philippines that was devastated by earthquakes on April 22 and 23. The first tremor, a magnitude 6.1 quake,Continue Reading
New Delhi, April 24, 2019: The Islamic State (IS) has claimed responsibility for the serial bomb blasts in Sri Lanka that killed over 300 people. The terror group also released on April 23 a picture of eight terrorists through its propaganda ‘Amaq’ news agency. “The executors of the attack thatContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Ching Mai, April 23, 2019: The Christian Conference of Asia on April 21 offered solidarity and sympathy to the victims of earthquakes that hit the Philippines on two days. A second major quake on April 23 rattled the Philippines after an earlier 6.1-magnitude earthquake that leftContinue Reading
London, April 23, 2019: A British father whose entire family were killed in the suspected terror attack in Sri Lanka has paid tribute to his “talented and thoughtful” children and his “brilliant, loving” wife. Ben Nicholson said his wife Anita, 42, son Alex, 14, and daughter Annabel, 11, had beenContinue Reading
Jakarta,April 19, 2019: The deadly attacks in Sri Lanka on Sunday highlighted how easily religious coexistence can be ripped apart in a region where secularism is weakening amid the growing appeal of a politics based on ethnic and sectarian identity. In India, the country’s governing right-wing Hindu party is exploitingContinue Reading
