On Wednesday morning, he led an outdoor Mass with some 500,000 in attendance to canonize Sri Lanka's first saint, 17th-century missionary Oratorian Fr. Joseph Vaz.

It will be the first exhibit of the tooth since Tamil rebels damaged the temple in a 1998 suicide bombing that killed 17. Sri Lanka’s 74% majority Sinhalenese are mostly Buddhist while Tamils ...

The Ashok Vatika Meditation Centre in Sita Temple (Seetha Eliya) in Nuwara Eliya was inaugurated by Foreign Affairs, Foreign Employment and Tourism Minister Vijitha Herath and India's High ...

The Thai royal family gave the elephant as a gift in 2001 to Sri Lanka’s government, which in turn gifted it to the temple where it was given honored roles in religious processions.

COLOMBO, Aug. 23 (Xinhua)— China’s White Horse Temple donated a Buddha statue to Sri Lanka, on Thursday (22) at Dharmayathanaya Temple in Colombo. The chief incumbent of Dharmayathanaya Temple Ven.