Melani Manel Perera

A court has recognized the right of ownership Saleema of family land, where a local entrepreneur was building luxury resorts. Her legal battle cost her 300 thousand rupees (2 thousand euros). She will be compensated with 5 million rupees. Local activists: "Her example gives strength and courage to those who risk losing their land."

This is what Indian External Affairs Minister S.M. Krishna said during his official visit to Sri Lanka (16-19 January). In a meeting with the minister, a delegation from the country’s main Tamil party says the government report on the civil war fell “dramatically short” of its goal.

A year of celebrations ends. Christians of the Diocese of Colombo, Kandy, Galle, Anuradhapura, Chilaw, Kurunegala and Badulla (where the priest carried out his mission) pray for his cause for canonization.

A rally is held to remember Lasantha Wickrematunga, assassinated on 8 January 2009. After three years, the police has not yet arrested the culprits. Human rights activists, civil society representatives and opposition politicians blame President Rajapaksa for the journalist’s death.

Christians, Buddhists, Muslims and Hindus in the Congress of Religions call for the implementation of proposals contained in the report issued by a commission of inquiry instituted by Rajapaksa. Resettling displaced people and finding a solution to the interethnic problem are necessary for a lasting peace. However, the government is not eager to act.

After 15 years of work, the U.S. Christian organization has successfully completed the various development projects in the villages of North Central provinces. Primary care related to agriculture, education, health and the environment. All the inhabitants are "grateful" to World Vision for making them "independent".

An electrified fence will surround the reserve to protect villages. The proposal comes from the Ministry of Agrarian Services and Wildlife. The pachyderms constantly attack residents, devastating their plantations and villages.

The message of the Bishops' Conference of Sri Lanka (Cbcsl) encourages people to commit to bringing the country back"to normal," almost three years after the Civil War. Like the shepherds of Bethlehem, to encounter Jesus among the poorest, without distinction of caste, creed or ethnicity.

The report by the Lessons Learnt and Reconciliation Commission set up by President Rajapaksa to investigate the final phase (2002-2009) of the civil war is a response to a UN report that accused the government of war crimes. For a Christian activist, it is necessary to break with the past to promote Tamil-Sinhalese reconciliation.

The event was attended by the youth choir "Conbrio", of 30 boys, with 80 elementary school children, all of the Archdiocese of Colombo. Complimenting the singers, the vicar general of Columbus recalled: "The youth are our future. We must protect them from abuse and neglect. "

The new budget, which dedicates too much to military spending, could increase the public debt and widen the gap between rich and poor. “Financial activities also have a religious dimension that must be taken seriously,” says the chaplain for the Young Christian Workers Movement.

United in prayer, Sri Lanka’s religious congregations have collected and sent messages of support to the Missionaries of Charity Sisters.”The Prem Niwasa is the mission to which Sr Eliza and her sisters are called to,” said Sr Bernadette Fernando, executive secretary of the Conference of Major Religious Superiors, to “satiate and quench the thirst for Jesus on the cross.”