Sri Lanka

A ship carrying aid of two billion Indian rupees (US$ 25,799,120) donated by the Indian state of Tamil Nadu reached Colombo on May 22, 2022.

The Catholic Bishops' Conference in Sri Lanka (CBCSL) on May 11 said the country needs to have an interim government to bring peace and address the ongoing economic crises.

A curfew has been imposed in Sri Lanka since May 9 due to the unrest in the country.

Former minister Lakshman Namal Rajapaksa, son of the former Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapakse has blamed the wrong decisions of the government officials for the crisis in Sri Lanka, which is under facing an economic crisis, reported BBC.

As the opposition political party of Sri Lanka has unveiled alleged corruption and fraud in the government, civilians express great anguish with an ongoing economic crisis.

Pope Francis meets a delegation of the victims of Sri Lanka’s Easter bombing, along with Sri Lankan Catholics working in Italy, and calls for authorities to reveal the truth behind the 2019 attacks.

At the special invitation of Pope Francis, Cardinal Malcolm Ranjith, Archbishop of Colombo, and a group of 56 others, including the bishops of Sri Lanka, left for the Vatican, April 22.

Sri Lanka is facing an economic, social, and political crisis like never before since its independence from Britain in 1948.

The first training camp for the animators of the Holy Childhood Society of the Archdiocese of Colombo, Sri Lanka was held from March 26 to 27.

Sri Lankan Cardinal Malcolm Ranjith of Colombo met Pope Francis at the Vatican on February 28 to raise international awareness and obtain justice for the Easter Sunday 2019 attacks victims.

Shehan Fernando will soon become the first-ever Divine Word Missionary from Sri Lanka to Australia.

Sri Lankan church launches a book on Easter Sunday Commission reports, as Cardinal says he has no faith in the present government to deliver justice.

The Apostolic Carmel Sisters in Sri Lanka celebrated the centenary of their services to the island nation. The congregation's charisma is education and the empowerment of girls and women.
At present, some 250 Apostolic Carmel Sisters work through 36 convents in Sri Lanka.

Sri Lankan Cardinal Malcolm Ranjith did not attend the national Independence Day celebrations on February 4 due "to lack of religious freedom."

Father Siri Oscar Abeyratne founded the largest lay apostolate in the island nation

The Catholic Church must be with the people, not on the side of the rulers and the powerful.

The Archbishop of Colombo, Cardinal Malcolm Ranjith, warned that Sri Lanka’s top government officials are out to mislead Pope Francis regarding the result of the investigation into the 2019 Easter Sunday bombings in the country’s capital.

Catholics in Sri Lanka wore black and hoisted black flags on Saturday, August 21, to show their indignation over the government’s failure to solve the 2019 Easter Sunday attack on churches.

The cardinal said he was not satisfied with the legal action currently being taken by the authorities against the bombing suspects

In a letter addressed Monday to the president of Sri Lanka, Catholic leaders criticized the “lethargic pace” of a government inquiry into coordinated terrorist attacks on churches that took place on Easter Sunday 2019, and questioned why recommendations brought by an official inquiry into the attacks have not yet been acted upon.