RVA Sinhala News Service

Radio Veritas Asia Sinhala Language Service celebrated its RVA Day for this year at the Sri Lanka Foundation Institute in Colombo on August 31.

"It is with deep regret that we announce the demise of His Grace the Most Rev. Dr. Oswald Thomas Colman Gomis, Archbishop Emeritus of Colombo on Friday the 3rd February 2023," says a press release from the Colombo Archbishop's House.

Sri Lankan Supreme Court has ruled that Former President and the police and intelligence chiefs have violated the fundamental rights of the victims by failing to act to prevent the Easter Sunday attacks in 2019 despite receiving intelligence information.

Veritas Sinhala Day was celebrated on Saturday, November 26 at Namel-Malani Punchi theatre, Borella, Sri Lanka.

Alfred Perera, a veteran radio broadcaster, journalist, and actor from Sri Lanka, embarked on a new mission, as the Sinhala Program producer and commentator at 'Radio Veritas Asia', in Manila, Philippines in 1986. From Radio Veritas he was able to broadcast the Good News through short wave radio to his own people back in Sri Lanka.

Veteran Sri Lankan actor and radio announcer Alfred Perera passed away on Nov 20 at the age of 93. He was in charge of the Sinhala division of Veritas Radio in Manila, Philippines for a while.

In a special statement released on November 8, Cardinal Ranjit stated that “Cruel and intolerable suppression exercised or being exercised by the existing Government against the leaders of protests and activists for Human rights in the country." Particularly, he condemned the Government for “the abusive and unjustified manner” in which the prevention of terrorism act is used for “arresting social leaders and those engaged in peaceful resistance to such policies.”

The Novel “The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida,” is about a photographer who wakes up dead, with “seven moons” or a week to ask his friends and loved ones to find his photos and expose the brutality of the island's sectarian conflict. Accepting the prize, Karunatilaka said, “My hope for Seven Moons is this, that it is read in a Sri Lanka that has understood that these ideas of corruption and race-baiting and cronyism have not worked and will never work.”

Sister Mary Angelika, an Apostolic Carmelite nun, received the "Guru Prathiba Prabha" award in the category of Principals at the National Teachers & Principals Appreciation ceremony, which is hosted by the Ministry of Education in Sri Lanka

At least five people died and another 60,000 people have been affected following heavy rainfall that battered Sri Lanka over the weekend.