By Robin Gomes Vatican City, April 25, 2022: Pope Francis on April 25 expressed his closeness with the families of the victims of Sri Lanka’s Easter Sunday bombings 3 years ago, and urged the country’s authorities to unveil the truth behind the attacks, saying it will usher in peace. HeContinue Reading
Colombo: A Sri Lankan Catholic archbishop appealed to the country’s Muslims on April 21 to reject extremism and join Catholics in determining the truth behind Easter Sunday suicide bombings in 2019 that killed 269 people. Cardinal Malcolm Ranjith of Colombo made the appeal during a commemoration of the second anniversaryContinue Reading
Colombo: Sri Lanka’s Criminal Investigation Department (CID) October 18 arrested a 43-year-old woman for posting an inflammatory video promoting religious hate between Buddhists and Catholics on social media. Police Spokesman DIG Ajith Rohana said the woman from Battaramulla was arrested for uploading a video to social media with malicious contentContinue Reading
Colombo, April 13, 2020: Sri Lanka’s Catholic Church has said it had forgiven the suicide bombers behind the attacks that killed at least 279 people last Easter. “We forgave them,” Cardinal Malcolm Ranjith, head of the Catholic Church in the island nation, said April 12 during an Easter Mass –Continue Reading
Colombo, May 1, 2019: Public Mass in the terror-hit Sri Lanka would resume in certain Catholic churches from May 5 and no bags will be allowed inside churches as part of the tight security measures, according to Cardinal Malcolm Ranjith. All public church services were cancelled after the Easter SundayContinue Reading
Colombo: The archbishop of the Sri Lankan capital has called on his Catholics to observe a week of prayer and fasting, beginning on Saturday, to obtain God’s graces to help deal with deadly mosquito-borne dengue fever that has killed m that they may intercede for us at this time ofContinue Reading