Long-simmering religious tensions between Sri Lanka's Buddhist majority and Muslim minority are fanning false claims that ...

Sri Lankan police rounded up almost two dozen people suspected of causing violent clashes by spreading rumors that Muslims were going to attack a sacred Buddhist monument, officials said. Muslim and ...

COLOMBO (Reuters) - Sri Lanka's prime minister said on Wednesday Buddhism will remain paramount in the bitterly divided island, seeking to head off protests led by the powerful Buddhist clergy against ...

KANDY, Sri Lanka — Buddhist mobs swept through Muslim neighborhoods in Sri Lanka’s central hills, destroying stores and restaurants and setting homes on fire despite a curfew, a state of emergency and ...

Sri Lanka made a significant contribution to the recent III International Buddhist Forum, held in the Republic of Kalmykia, ...

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Mobs made up mostly of Sri Lanka's predominately Buddhist Sinhalese majority torched Muslim homes and businesses in the island-nation's central hills near Kandy, a day after the government imposed a ...

MULLEGAMA, Sri Lanka-- Religious violence flared anew in the hills of central Sri Lanka on Wednesday despite a state of emergency, with Buddhist mobs sweeping through towns and villages, burning ...

AMBALANTOTA, Sri Lanka – Sri Lanka government supporters attacked protesting Buddhist monks and villagers with clubs on Saturday as they marched against what they say is a plan to take over private ...

Christian Solidarity Worldwide (CSW) has reported an attempt by Buddhists extremists in Sri Lanka to make Buddhism the state religion and curtail religious freedom by prohibiting the conversion of ...

Prime Minister of Sri Lanka Ranil Wickremesinghe speaks at the opening of The Ocean Conference at the United Nations in the Manhattan borough of New York City, New York, U.S. June 5, 2017.

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