On Good Friday, Pope speaks of shame for Church and humanity View(s): 131 ROME (Reuters) – Pope Francis, presiding at a Good Friday service, asked God for forgiveness for scandals in the Catholic Church and for the “shame” of humanity becoming inured to daily scenes of bombed cities and drowning…
Almost everyone feels religious in Sri Lanka Oliver Smith, digital travel editor 16 APRIL 2017 • 7:00AM To mark the Easter weekend (because it’s not all about chocolate), we’ve mapped the world’s most – and least – religious countries. We’ve based our map on the results of three Gallup polls, taken…
Eelam: Church funded political agenda by Shenali Waduge on 04 Apr 2013 18 Comments Abrahamic religions and the violence, expansionism and advocacy of conversion are things that cannot be kept hidden or denied. “Spreading the good word” has led to purging of territories and their wealth and excommunicating natives and…
Is ‘Tamil Eelam’ a Christian agenda? by B R Haran on 29 Apr 2009 13 Comments The White Christian Church has the unique characteristic of gaining entry into non-White, non-Semitic civilizations, by slow infiltration ofIMPORTANT establishments to influence them and create unrest by dividing the local populace along communal or…
Dr.T.Jayasinghe – Fmr. Ambassador to State of Palestine In the midst of all political work connected with the Presidential election President Mahinda Rajapaksa has directed the officials to make arrangements in coordination with Cardinal Malcom Ranjith for a grand welcome to Most Rev.Pope Francis who will be in Sri Lanka…
US pressures Lanka on Anti-Conversion Bill By christianaggress | April 27, 2016 The Sri Lankan ambassador to the United States, Jaliya Wickramasuriya, received a letter recently, signed by 15 US Congressmen, requesting that Sri Lanka shelve the proposed legislation outlawing religious conversion. The Bill was approved in January, and a…
Select Language ▼ Our meditation hall was damaged by Tamil Christians. Now while the case is going on they have built a new Church! Time to act Support us Now What is your story? After the death of my mother in law, we decided to set up a learning…
Gandhi in Jaffna RAMACHANDRA GUHA No politics for the Mahatma. BY the standards of an incident-filled life, 1927 was not an especially exciting year for Gandhi. He was not in jail, nor was he planning a satyagraha. He spun and he prayed, but these could not completely fill up the…
It was in 1933 that Rev. Fujii Guruji came to Wardha to meet Mahatma Gandhi. In the first meeting itself, Gandhi adopted and chanted Na-Mu-myo-ho-ren-ge-kyo, mantra to the beat of a drum. From that day onwards, for about 15 years till his death, Gandhi, chanted this mantra during his…
The Naga Vihara in Jaffna was much in the news recently as the Minister Jayalath Jayawardene took a highly publicized pinnacle from the South. The TV coverage muted as it went through the Tiger controlled Vanni. The Naga Vihara is a recent temple only decades old. It was destroyed…