(Courtesy of Sr. Sirima Opanayake) Cardinal Malcolm Ranjith, archbishop of Colombo and the head of the Catholic Church in Sri Lanka, who led the memorial services in Negombo, announced the start ...

St. Anthony’s Shrine in Kochchikade, a revered national heritage site, is often called a “shrine of peace” for uniting Sri ...

While expressing satisfaction on the investigations carried out into the Easter Sunday bomb attacks, the National Catholic ...

Sri Lanka’s Catholic Church urged the country Friday to criminally ... Duthika Perera, an attorney representing Archbishop of Colombo Cardinal Malcolm Ranjith, said the church expects the ...

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka — Sri Lanka's Catholic church says the Vatican has named 167 of its faithful killed in Islamic State-inspired suicide bombings six years ago as witnesses of faith. Hundreds ...

Sri Lanka's Catholic church has decided to move towards declaring ... Cardinal Malcolm Ranjith, the Archbishop of Colombo, announced the move while addressing a mass on Sunday.

The gunman opened fire yesterday at a church in Manampitiya, 160km northeast of the capital Colombo ... them “Heroes of the Faith”. Sri Lanka’s Catholic minority has maintained a campaign ...

The archbishop of Colombo, Sri Lanka ... Six years after the attacks, Ranjith and the Catholic Church in Sri Lanka are still demanding further investigations into the bomings to examine potential ...

COLOMBO — The leader of Sri Lanka’s Catholic Church on Friday praised a Supreme Court decision to order the former president and four officials to pay compensation for the 2019 Easter Sunday ...

However, the evangelization history starts with the arrival of a Portuguese fleet in Colombo on November 15 ... They succeeded ending the Portuguese rule in Sri Lanka in 1658. But the Dutch feared the ...

speaks during a media briefing in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Friday, Jan. 13, 2023. Sri Lanka’s Catholic church wants the country’s former President Maithripala Sirisena be criminally prosecuted for ...

Colombo, June 1 (Daily Mirror) - While expressing satisfaction on the investigations carried out into the Easter Sunday bomb attacks, the National Catholic Church Communications Director Fr.