Catholic priests and religious hold a silent protest in Negombo, Sri Lanka, condemning alleged police violence against a Catholic priest, while reciting the Rosary and holding placards calling for an ...

“There is a growing tendency among those in power to deny religious leaders the right to speak and act on problems facing the ...

STORY: The leader of Sri Lanka's Catholic Church on Friday (January 13) praised a Supreme Court decision to order the former president and four officials to pay compensation for the 2019 Easter Sunday ...

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka — Sri Lanka's Catholic church says the Vatican has named 167 of its faithful killed in Islamic State-inspired suicide bombings six years ago as witnesses of faith. Hundreds, ...

Thousands of Sri Lankan Catholics attended the fifth annual memorial service, April 21, of the 2019 Easter bombing, where the church initiated the process of declaring the victims as "heroes of faith, ...

A top Vatican diplomat has raised the possibility of a papal visit to Sri Lanka as the two nations marked 50 years of diplomatic relations this month, a milestone reached as the island nation emerges ...

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Sri Lanka’s Catholic cardinal received “foreign information” that attempts would be made this week to attack a church and another church institution, according to a letter he ...

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Sri Lanka’s Catholic leaders urged the government on Tuesday not to proceed with a constitutional amendment that would consolidate power in the president’s hands, saying it ...

COLOMBO (Reuters) - Sri Lanka's Catholic Church has urged the government not to use a forthcoming visit by Pope Francis to help its re-election campaign after media reported posters had appeared ...

COLOMBO (Reuters) - Sri Lanka's Catholic Church has urged the government not to use a forthcoming visit by Pope Francis to help its re-election campaign after media reported posters had appeared ...