“Yet across the gulf of space, minds that are to our minds as ours are to those of the beasts that perish, intellects vast and cool and unsympathetic, regarded this earth with envious eyes, and slowly and surely drew their plans against us.”

Appreciate that you made the effort to find out the timing of our mass. Appreciate that you learnt more about our religion to know that Sundays are the days we go to Church for the congregational prayers and Mass. But I guess there were some thin

Katuwapitiya is a part of the Negombo urban area about 3 miles from the sea as the crow flies. It may be a part of the Katana Police Division but it is definitely part of the Negombo urban area. It is at the church of St Sebastian at Katuwapitiya tha

Much has been written about his professional and academic contribution in the field of Taxation, as such I do not wish to add anything more to it. I shall therefore confine myself to a few personal incidents.

“We understand how sad and angry they must be feeling for the loss of their relatives. But, we also hate terrorism. We love peace and freedom which is why we came to peace-loving Sri Lanka,” Hafza, a Pakistani national, said. Hafza...

So many heartbreaking stories about victims of gruesome terrorist attacks, that took place on Easter Day, are heard via the media these days. The more intimately affected – those families and friends currently dealing with....

In the aftermath of multiple bomb attacks on Easter Sunday for which the Islamic State claimed responsibility, Daily Mirror, spoke to several parties on strengthening the harmony among the different ethnic and religious groups.

Tension and uncertainty prevailed in Batticaloa yesterday, three days after a deadly suicide blast in the Zion Church on Easter Sunday claimed the lives of 29 persons, including 14 children, prompting clergy and officials to call for peace and calm,

To Christians, the message of the feast of Easter is ‘Resurrection’, ‘Life’, and ‘Hope’. Jesus Christ was humiliated, tortured stripped naked, nailed to a cross and put to death in the most humiliating and painful manner.

A special Police information unit was installed opposite the Chief Judicial Medical Office at the Colombo National Hospital (CNH), where police officers have been deployed to assist in providing information on deaths related to the explosions that to

The late Lalith Athulathmudali was at one time the Minister for National Security and one who took his responsibility very seriously and never forgot that he was primarily accountable to the people of this nation. The recent suicide bomb blasts were

On April 22 (Monday) the final rites of 12-year-old Sharon Steven, his 10-year-old sister Shara Ebshiba, and their 13-year-old friend Jenakshika Thivenithan were held in Batticaloa, along with the funerals of 23 other victims of the Easter Sunday bom

It was minutes after the Rev. Father delivered a speech about the importance of helping people during difficult times that the suicide bomber triggered the bomb at the St. Sebastian’s Church in Katuwapitiya, Negombo, killing scores and injuring man

Multiple explosions on Easter Sunday (April 21) left an island nation devastated and the Government has declared today a national day of mourning. Explosions took place at three churches, namely St. Sebastian’s in Katuwapitiya, St Anthony’s Churc

The National Christian Council of Sri Lanka (NCCSL) along with her constituencies views the bomb attacks which began in the morning hours on ‘Easter Sunday’ (April 21) with shock, disgust and horror.

Although Aruggoda doesn’t contain a significant Christian population, along the Panadura-Ratnapura Road it begins with a Christian cross; a Kurusa Handiya, between Pamunugama and Alubomulla. The e

The traditional theologians (or rather, the mere holders of doctoral degrees in West’s God-Study framed within a given rational system) look down disdainfully on Francis as a non-theologian who needs to be guided and even corrected....

The news of singer Angelene Gunathilake’s recent passing away hardly caused a stir in the print media. When reams were written about singers H. R. Jothipala and W. D. Amaradeva.....

The appointed hour had come, yet He did not cling to His equality with God He could have assuaged the Father’s justice With a simple word, a single sigh But, His love went beyond time and space A love unfathomable!

The cross, comprised wooden timbers and iron spikes, was the gas chamber or electric chair of the first century. It originated as a means of maximum torture. First used by the Persians, Phoenicians, and Carthaginians,

The annual feast of Easter celebrates what is at the core of Christianity as a religion as well as the profound spiritual experience it engenders. It concerns the transforming and revolutionary historical event of the Resurrection of Jesus Christ of

Jesus is given various names/ titles in scripture. This reflection is on two names or titles; the first is the Prince of Peace, a title given to him, as recorded in Isaiah 9. The second is the Son of Man, which Jesus used to refer to himself. We cann

Good Friday is a special day for the Christians since it is on this day that they commemorate with much piety and devotion the death of Jesus of Nazareth, the Saviour of human beings. During special prayerful ceremonies in the churches on this day...

When the Romans designed crucifixion as their means of capital punishment, they had more in mind than simply putting someone to death. They wanted to accomplish something else too, namely, to make this death.....

On a night of the full moon, King Ajasatta, with the medic Jeevaka, five hundred princesses and numerous ministers arrived at Veluwanaramaya to direct a memorable question at Gautama Buddha.

Five years after Enlightenment Gautama Buddha visited Sri Lanka for the second occasion. This visit was after His first visit to Sri Lanka to settle a dispute between Yakkhas and Nagas. Buddha’s second visit to Sri Lanka was on a ‘Bak’ Full Moo

For the first time in recorded history, bacteria, viruses and other infectious agents do not cause the majority of deaths or disability in any region of the world. Deaths from malaria, tuberculosis and diarrhoeal diseases have fallen more than 25% ea

People, young and old, are elegantly dressed in traditional attire and walk along the otherwise congested streets of the Bangladeshi capital Dhaka. They are heading to Ramna park in procession. And, they greet each other saying ‘Shuva Nobo Borsho

We have amidst us those who need a little more attention than others and support to lift them from despair. They are a part of us who should not be abandoned but be made part of the society.

Perhaps, the most important event that would define Sri Lanka’s presidential race, and possibly also the future of Sri Lankan politics, happened at a parking lot of an American grocery chain, Trader Joe’s in Pasadena, California last week.