The Catholic Church has called for a ‘Black Sunday’ next week to mark their protests over the findings in the Easter Sunday attack Commission report that was made public last week.
Cardinal Malcom Ranjith, Archbishop of Colombo has called Catholics to turn up in church for next Sunday’s mass in black and take part in demonstrations outside the churches after the mass.
The notification announcing the protests was readout at Sunday masses.
The Church has expressed clear dissatisfaction about the report claiming that the Commission has failed to find out the persons who actually carried out the attack and their motives.
The church has distributed a specially prepared prayer to be recited during the week at homes.
It has not been only the Catholic church which has expressed opposition about the report, but even major political parties have said that the report was inadequate.
Several others including ruling party ministers and state ministers also have expressed displeasure about the report.
Among them are Ministers Mahinda Amarawera and Dayasiri Jayasekara.
In the wake of the ‘outing’ of parliament Speaker Ashoka Ranwala with accusations that his PhD was fake, there has been a flurry of articles on fake degrees.
An eighteen member Presidential Task Force, including President’s secretary was appointed today to implement the ’Clean Sri Lanka’ initiative proposed by the government.
Under the government’s initiative of disposing of high end- luxury vehicles that impose a heavy burden of public funds, other state institutions are barred from purchasing them through state procurement procedure, according to a Treasury circular.
An investigation has been launched on the instructions of Acting Inspector General of Police (IGP) Priyantha Weerasuriya into an incident where popular author Kasun Mahendra Heenatigala was arrested and allegedly mistreated by the Athurugiriya Police.
Mr. Gihan de Silva has been appointed as the new Chairman of the Sri Lanka Rupavahini Corporation, the Government Information Department announced.
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