Minister Chamal Rajapaksa Archives

Foreign Minister in talks with Australian Home Minister Foreign Minister Prof. G.L. Peiris with visiting Australian Home Affairs Minister Karen Andrews, at the Foreign Ministry on Monday. Source:Dailynews Foreign Minister Prof. G.L. Peiris met visiting Australian Home Affairs Minister Karen Andrews on Monday (20) at the Foreign Ministry and discussed avenues for enhanced cooperation on a broad spectrum of areas. The Foreign Minister expressed satisfaction with Australia’s significant involvement in preventing people smuggling and transnational crimes in Sri Lanka as well as in the region. The Minister reiterated that the vibrant partnership between Australia and Sri Lanka exemplified the highly effective and successful collaboration between the two countries in the field of preventing people smuggling and border security matters. ...

Cardinal calls for decisive action Easter Mass at St Sebastian’s Church in Katuwapitiya last Sunday (AFP) Source:Dailynews Easter (now also known as Resurrection Sunday) that symbolizes Jesus Christ’s triumph over death was observed by the Christian brethren in Sri Lanka with solemn Masses in churches across the country last Sunday, while the island nation was still struggling to come to terms with the piercing agony of the Easter Sunday carnage that took nearly 260 innocent lives and injured about 500 people, mostly Churchgoers, two years ago. The Easter Sunday Services at St. Anthony’s Shrine in Kochchikade, St Sebastian’s Church in Katuwapitiya and Zion Church in Batticaloa, the three churches that came under suicide attacks on April 21, 2019, rekindled the bone-chilling memories of the fateful day, as the families and friends of those victims gathered for prayers while impatiently waiting for justice for their loved ones who lost their lives ...