The Vatican news agency Fides is reporting the concern of the Catholic Church in Sri Lanka for a new effort by nine Buddhist monks who are members of the national Parliament and are seeking to pass an ...

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka — It was time to reclaim the holiday. To put the Buddha back into Vesak, so to speak. But as Sri Lankans prepared to celebrate Vesak, the holiday this week commemorating Buddha’s ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. KANDY, Sri Lanka (AP) — In this mountain ...

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — An elephant taking part in a Buddhist pageant in Sri Lanka has run berserk, injuring at least 18 people. Video on Derana Television of Saturday night’s pageant in Kotte, near ...

(RNS) — The street protests that drove Sri Lanka’s President Gotabaya Rajapaksa from office last month brought together people from across the country’s diverse and sometimes warring ethno-religious ...

A court in Sri Lanka has sentenced an influential Buddhist monk to four years in jail after convicting him of defaming Islam with his public comments seven years ago. The Colombo High Court on March ...

Danish Monk Who Revolutionised Digital Buddhism and World’s Buddhist Media The Buddhist community in Sri Lanka and around the ...

Sri Lanka made a significant contribution to the recent III International Buddhist Forum, held in the Republic of Kalmykia, Russian Federation, with co-sponsorship from Moscow State University (MSU) ...

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (Reuters) - Pope Francis paid a surprise visit to a Buddhist temple on Wednesday, capping a trip to Sri Lanka where he told huge crowds that religions must unite to heal the country ...

KANDY, Sri Lanka (Reuters) - Sri Lanka's most powerful Buddhist nationalist group rallied its hardline base on Sunday, saying they must aim to take democratic control of parliament to protect the ...

Buddhist nuns in Sri Lanka have won the right to obtain national identity cards bearing their cherished title ‘Bhikkhuni' (nun), following a decade-long legal battle. On June 17, the Supreme Court ...

Seven Buddhist monks, including an Indian national, were killed and six others were injured after a cable-operated rail cart overturned at a forest monastery in northwestern Sri Lanka, police said on ...