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…
Select Language ▼ Our meditation hall was damaged by Tamil Christians. Now while the case is going on they have built a new Church! Time to act Support us Now What is your story? After the death of my mother in law, we decided to set up a learning…
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…
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…
The Naga Vihara in Jaffna was much in the news recently as the Minister Jayalath Jayawardene took a highly publicized pinnacle from the South. The TV coverage muted as it went through the Tiger controlled Vanni. The Naga Vihara is a recent temple only decades old. It was destroyed…
All Christians ? or some Buddhist Baptised after death? The event which came to be known as ‘Black July’ started off after the LTTE ambushed a Sri Lankan military convoy on the 23rd of July outside Jaffna, in Northern Sri Lanka. The attack results in 15 Sinhalese soldiers dying.…
Here’s a common question: If the Buddha was not a god, why do people worship him? The classic answer to this question is that Buddhists are not necessarily “worshiping” the Buddha when they show respect to a Buddha image, but that depends on what you mean by “worship.” English language…
The Colossal 67.5 feet high Buddha Statue at Rambadagalla Vidyasagara Temple in the Rideegama DS division will be unveiled on April 30. This is considered to be the world’s tallest rock-hewn seated Buddha image. On the invitation of Rambadagalla Chief Incumbent Egodamulle Amaramoli Thero, in the presence of Maha…
