Sri Lanka has joined an expanding list of countries where churches have been twisted into a ... the director of the South and Southeast Asia action team at the Religious Freedom Institute, told ...

Religious freedom expert: War on Christians is intensifying. Christians are a soft target and the U.S. not doing enough to protect them, says the Hudson Institute's Nina Shea.

The Easter attacks in Sri Lanka, a Buddhist-majority country not known for religious violence or intolerance, are tapping into global worries about safety. Experts who study long-term trends of ...

COLOMBO, May 28 (Xinhua) -- Sri Lanka's Ministry of Buddhasasana, Religious, and Cultural Affairs is drafting a new law to promote religious harmony, state media reported on Sunday, quoting the ...

Five months after the Easter Sunday attacks on churches and luxury hotels in Sri Lanka, the U.N. Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Religion or Belief, Ahmed Shaheed, visited Sri Lanka to assess the ...

Amarnath Amarasingam, of the Institute for Strategic Dialogue, talks about social media’s role in exacerbating ethnic conflict in Sri Lanka and about terrorist groups gaining a foothold in the ...

Ethnic and religious divides. The 25-year-long Sri Lankan Civil War, starting in 1983, divided the Catholic community.. The war was fought against the government by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil ...

(The Conversation) — Sri Lanka’s 21 million Christians, the majority of them Roman Catholics, have a long history that reflects the dynamics of colonialism as well as present-day ethnic and ...

The fallout from the recent spate of suicide bombings in Sri Lanka highlights the tension between religious freedom as a fundamental human right and national-security concerns. The country’s ban ...

Dailymirror.lk – Sri Lanka 24 Hours Online Breaking News : News, Politics, Video, Finance, Business, ... religious institutions and establishments, projects and the like, ...

However, in Sri Lanka, Buddhists (87%) are just as likely as Christians (86%) and only slightly less likely than Hindus (95%) to visit their religious institutions monthly. In line with traditional ...

'What is needed now is healing and unity, not further conflict and division,' Pope Francis tells Buddhist, Hindu, and Muslim leaders as he calls for cooperation in post-war Sri Lanka ...