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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

A Sri Lankan court jailed a politically influential, firebrand Buddhist monk on Jan. 9, putting him behind bars for ... He was previously jailed last year on a similar charge of disparaging Sri ...

Galagodaatte Gnanasara was convicted on Thursday for the remarks, which date back to 2016. Sri Lanka rarely convicts Buddhist monks, but this marks the second time that Gnanasara, who has repeatedly ...

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 ...

A Sri Lankan court jailed a politically influential, firebrand Buddhist monk on Thursday ... last year on a similar charge of disparaging Sri Lanka's minority Muslims, who account for just ...