Life “very hard” for Sri Lankan fishermen in financial squall
Negombo, Sri Lanka Reuters After three weeks at sea, Anton Fernando tallies his sales of tuna and other fish on a dock in Negombo, a fishing town in Sri Lanka, where the country’s financial crisis darkens already murky waters. The math does not look good for Fernando and his crew of four among the dozen […]
Sri Lanka Catholics mark ‘Black Sunday’ for Easter victims
Colombo, Sri LankaAP Sri Lankan Roman Catholics attended Mass dressed in black on Sunday, with prayers and protests calling for justice for those killed in coordinated suicide bomb attacks on Easter Sunday two years ago. Church bells tolled and prayers were chanted at 8:45am, the time when bombs were detonated almost simultaneously at two Roman […]
Sri Lankan Easter bombings: One year later, survivors rely on their faith to recover
AVINASH GIRI, writing for Religion Unplugged, reports on how survivors are coping a year after the devastating Easter bombings in Sri Lanka…
Bombs kill more than 200 in Sri Lankan churches, hotels on Easter Sunday
Updated: 8:30am, 22nd AprilReuters More than 200 people were killed and at least 450 injured in bomb blasts that ripped through churches and luxury hotels in Sri Lanka on Easter Sunday, the first major attack on the Indian Ocean island since the end of a civil war 10 years ago. The government declared a curfew […]