FacebookLikeShareTweetEmail A court in Sri Lanka has jailed a prominent Buddhist monk who called Islam “a cancer that must be ...

A hardline Sri Lankan monk who is a close ally of ousted former president Gotabaya Rajapaksa, has been sentenced to nine ...

A Sri Lankan court sentenced Buddhist monk Galagodaatte Gnanasara to nine months in prison for insulting Islam and inciting ...

A prominent Sri Lankan Buddhist monk, Galagodaatte Gnanasara, known for his close ties to former President Gotabaya Rajapaksa ...

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 ...

A Sri Lankan court jailed a politically influential, firebrand Buddhist monk on Thursday, putting him behind bars for a second time for insulting Islam and stoking religious hatred in the island ...