firebrand Buddhist monk on Jan. 9, putting him behind bars for a second time for insulting Islam and stoking religious hatred in the island nation. Galagodaatte Gnanasara was sentenced on Thursday to ...

COLOMBO — A court in Sri Lanka jailed a politically influential, firebrand Buddhist monk on Thursday, put-ting him behind bars for a second time for insulting Islam and stoking religious hatred in the ...

Sri Lanka rarely convicts Buddhist monks, but this marks the second time that Gnanasara, who has repeatedly been accused of hate crimes and anti-Muslim violence, has been jailed. The sentence ...

COLOMBO: A Sri Lankan court has imprisoned a politically powerful Buddhist monk for the second time for ... on a similar charge of disparaging Sri Lanka's minority Muslims, who account for just ...

Buddhist monk Galagodaatte Gnanasara speaks to the media at the Rukmale Sri Dharma Vijayaloka Maha Viharaya temple in the Pannipitiya suburb, outside Sri Lanka’s capital Colombo, on May 23, 2019 ...

A very warm welcome to all of you. Let me thank each of you for joining the 1.4 billion Indians today in celebrating the 76th ...

President Anura Kumara Dissanayake emphasized that a country cannot progress solely through laws and regulations and ...

Buddhist monks belonging to Malaysia, Vietnam, Thailand, Nepal, South Korea and Sri Lanka, who are in Islamabad to participate in the International Gandhara Symposium visited Taxila Museum and ...

Fifty-year-old Josef Autser is an engineer by profession and a Catholic by birth, but later showed a great devotion towards Buddhism ... and parcel to the Clean Sri Lanka Programme and shown ...