Catholic Church refutes Maithripala’s allegations

The Catholic Church in Sri Lanka today refuted the claims made by former President Maithripala Sirisena that funds received from various sources to be given to the Easter Sunday bomb victims have not been disbursed to them.

National Director, Catholic Mass Communications Fr. Jude Krishantha who refuted the claim by MP Sirisena said the Church had already disbursed Rs. 500 million to the Easter Sunday bomb victims. 

“We have disbursed these funds through 'Seth Sarana' the social service arm of the Sri Lankan Catholic Church. Jesus had said your left hand should not know what your right hand is doing. Therefore we do things secretly without publishing our acts,” he said

Sirisena earlier said the church should come up with a list of names of the Easter Sunday bomb victims to whom it had distributed funds to.