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Easter attacks: Sri Lanka Church observes silence on anniversary

On: April 21, 2021

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

Sri Lankan Church ”forgives” Easter suicide attackers

By: Matters India

On: April 14, 2020

In: International

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