Melani Manel Perera

This is the theme of a training course (21-29 September) for 40 operators from Caritas India, Pakistan, Nepal and Bangladesh. Development projects to establish peace and justice in society, in Dhaka. Pakistan, seeking new tools to put an end to continuous clashes and fighting. The presentation of the guide "Human rights from a religious perspective."

In the district of Batticaloa, Drama and Theatre and workshop, three 'street plays' : development programme run by World Vision, a Christian organisation . The participants, 50 school pupils, victims of ethnic conflict.

An exhibit and seminar (24-27 September) will showcase ancient artefacts, goods, images, sculptures and studies about the glory days of the northern peninsula. Indian scholars will present papers. The exhibit is open to foreigners.

Resources are at risk. Residents in affected area want the government to enforce the law that regulates the maritime border and access to the waters of the two nations, which have been violated by Indian trawlers. The Fisheries and Defence Ministries show indifference to their plight.

The attacks in New York have upset the political and military balance in Sri Lanka. The Islamisation of the costumes, even among the rich and moderate Muslims, is the second consequence. The opinion of a Sri Lankan professor of Political Science at the University of Philadelphia.

The Sri Lankan government has rented the most beautiful and pristine natural areas for the next 99 years to build hotels, resorts, golf courses, facilities for seaplanes and aero-taxis. Mobilization of Catholics, religious and civil society against the expropriation of lands.

The goal is to earn US$ 2.75 billion in foreign exchange and attract 2.5 million tourists by 2016. Improving domestic air travel is one of the key components of the plan.

In a commemorative march, she asks for an impartial and a fair inquiry into the murder of the young working-class Catholic Roshen Chanaka. Christian-Buddhist ceremony in his honor prevented for "political pressure". The boy died on May 30 last year in clashes between police and workers, in protest over pensions. Bishops' Conference appeal to the government.

The appeal launched for the World Day of the disappeared. The women are asking the government to investigate a case without looking at ethnicity or religion. With 12 thousand missing persons, Sri Lanka is the second country with the highest number of disappearances in the world.

Catholics and non-Catholics come together from different dioceses across the country. Cards Malcolm Ranjith and Bernard Francis Law, archpriest at Rome’s Santa Maria Maggiore Basilica, performed the liturgy.

The young Muslim is held responsible for the death of a child in the family where she worked, at age 17. She had emigrated illegally with a false passport.

Sri Lanka can offer tourists a range of wildlife experiences. Animals like elephants, leopards and sloth bears live on the island in protected areas where nature lovers can watch them, something hard to do elsewhere in Asia. Visitors can also enjoy the island’s pristine forests and watch its whales and dolphins.