Sri Lanka News News Sri Lanka » Religion: Sri Lankans Are Positive About Religious Diversity, Says Pew Survey
Although Sri Lanka suffered decades of violent ethnic conflict, Sri Lankans seem to have positive attitudes toward people of other religions – despite the fact that most see religion as key to their ...
News Sri Lanka » Religion: In Sri Lanka, Buddhist monks' involvement in protests raises familiar questions
(RNS) — The street protests that drove Sri Lanka’s President Gotabaya Rajapaksa from office last month brought together people from across the country’s diverse and sometimes warring ethno-religious ...
News Sri Lanka » Religion: Sri Lankan Church official decries restrictions on faith education
Christian students in govt schools face limited religious instruction, pressure to attend other religious classes ...
News Sri Lanka » Religion: Growing up during Sri Lanka’s civil war taught me that getting along with people across divides is a virtue we can learn
(The Conversation) — A scholar who studies the virtues that help people sustain relationships across faiths and cultures describes what being a child during the war taught him about practicing ...
News Sri Lanka » Religion: How religious groups should respond to Sri Lanka’s crisis
Development professionals said religious leaders can help to mitigate the psychosocial effects of the current crisis by providing guidance and collective meditations while also providing support in ...
News Sri Lanka » Religion: 6. Religious diversity and national identity
Many people throughout the countries surveyed – including all major religious groups – express a general acceptance of religious diversity. For example, large majorities in each country say they would ...
News Sri Lanka » Religion: Buddhist Vesak festival brings religions together in Sri Lanka
The Buddhist Vesak festival celebrations in Sri Lanka have evolved into an interreligious affair, with more Hindus and Christians participating in the festivities, observers say. Christians and Hindus ...
News Sri Lanka » Religion: Exposing Increasing Persecution of Christians in Sri Lanka and Urging U.N. To Demand Protection for Religious Minorities
We recently informed you that we have filed 13 country reports with the U.N., detailing each country’s human rights record, including issues concerning Christian persecution, human trafficking, forced ...
News Sri Lanka » Religion: Rohan Gunaratna on the Roots of Sri Lanka’s Deadly Easter Sunday Attacks
Ninth, monitor those arrested and released after Easter Sunday attack. Tenth, teach comparative religion or religious knowledge at school so that all faiths will be respected. The contemporary origins ...
News Sri Lanka » Religion: Ministry clarifies Indian religious leader’s Sri Lanka visit was in February
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Foreign Employment and Tourism today clarified that the visit of Indian religious leader Mahamandaleshwar Swami Kailashanand Giri Ji to Sri Lanka, which has recently ...
News Sri Lanka » Religion: 5 facts about religion in South and Southeast Asia
Across South and Southeast Asia, countries have very different religious makeups, yet there are commonalities in how they practice and think about religion, according to a new Pew Research Center ...