About 7% of Buddhist-majority Sri Lanka's 22 million people are Christians, most of them Catholics. Despite being a minority, the church's views are respected. Buddhist monk Omalpe Sobitha also ...

Claims of 5G mobile signals harming Sri Maha Bodhi also illustrate the reverence in which the Buddhist ... 20237 Jun 2023 When social media was inundated with rumours that Sri Lanka’s holiest ...

Beyond a religious label, Buddhism is often seen as a cultural and family tradition that one must uphold in Sri Lanka. Sri Lankans are not averse to having people of other religions living near them.

Since he was gifted to Sri Lanka in 2001, the elephant, often used to carry Buddhist relics in processions, has spent most of his time at a Buddhist temple in Kalutara, about 75 km (47 miles ...