I didn't just visit Jaffna in Sri Lanka. I returned to it, like a forgotten verse in a prayer whispered by generations. The palmyra trees still stood like old soldiers, their fronds rattling like ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. – On Friday, June 7, Ambassador Julie Chung, the U.S. Ambassador to Sri Lanka, visited the Staten Island Hindu Temple in Castleton Corners, to meet with the Tamil American ...

The diocese stretches over nearly 4,400 square kilometers. As per 2024, the population of this particular region is 1,637,000 of which 267,650 are Catholics. Most of the people are Hindus. Tamils are ...

Visitors to Sri Lanka tend to stay in the south of the island, or explore the tea plantations and ancient Buddhist sites in its central highlands. Few venture to the north of the country, where civil ...

Tamil families in Thaiyiddy were displaced in 1990 by the military. An area of six acres is now home to the Tissa Vihara Buddhist temple. Despite the end of the civil war in 2009, locals have not seen ...

Sri Lankan President Anura Kumara Dissanayake on Monday (September 1, 2025) laid the foundation stone for the construction of the first international cricket stadium in the former war torn region of ...