Pope and MR

Dr.T.Jayasinghe – Fmr. Ambassador to State of Palestine In the midst of all political work connected with the Presidential election President Mahinda Rajapaksa has directed the officials to make arrangements in coordination with Cardinal Malcom Ranjith for a grand welcome to Most Rev.Pope Francis who will be in Sri Lanka…

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United States on Sri Lanka

US pressures Lanka on Anti-Conversion Bill By christianaggress | April 27, 2016 The Sri Lankan ambassador to the United States, Jaliya Wickramasuriya, received a letter recently, signed by 15 US Congressmen, requesting that Sri Lanka shelve the proposed legislation outlawing religious conversion. The Bill was approved in January, and a…

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Gandhi in Jaffna

Gandhi in Jaffna RAMACHANDRA GUHA No politics for the Mahatma. BY the standards of an incident-filled life, 1927 was not an especially exciting year for Gandhi. He was not in jail, nor was he planning a satyagraha. He spun and he prayed, but these could not completely fill up the…

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Gandhi a Buddhist

     It was in 1933 that Rev. Fujii Guruji came to Wardha to meet Mahatma Gandhi.  In the first meeting itself, Gandhi adopted and chanted Na-Mu-myo-ho-ren-ge-kyo, mantra to the beat of a drum. From that day onwards, for about 15 years till his death, Gandhi, chanted this mantra during his…

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