Catholic Church oppose UNHRC resolution-"We need to come out of the fear that the minority is always a threat to the majority"-Cardinal Ranjith.

Sri Lanka court frees baby charge nun

The Missionaries of Charity have been cleared of any wrongdoing

Cardinal warns of 'isolation'

"We need to come out of the fear that the minority is always a threat to the majority"

The government reject the allegations.

Tamil rights

The Cardinal also calls for the implementation of political rights of Tamils and the Muslims in the island nation.

Although the war with weapons is over, a war against "national selfishness" need to be launched, said Cardinal Ranjith.

Wednesday 05 May 2010

Channel 4 News reports from a camp in the northern Sri Lankan city of Vavuniya, where Tamil refugees have been taken.

Catholic Church oppose UNHRC resolution

The Catholic Church of Sri Lanka say that the efforts by western countries to bring a resolution at the UNHRC asking for an investigation into human rights abuses in Sri Lanka is an intrusion on the sovereignty of the country.

	Statement issued by Archdiocese of Colombo

Cardinal Malcolm Ranjith of the Catholic church in Colombo, issued a statement on Monday that the United States of America is to table a resolution 'against Sri Lanka with the support of some western countries'.

Insult on the intelligence

"Such efforts by western powers is an insult on the intelligence of the people of Sri Lanka", says the Cardinal.

In the statement issued by Archdiocese of Colombo, the cardinal also calls for a prompt internal investigation based on the recommendations of the Lesson Learnt and Reconciliation Commission (LLRC).

Human sheilds

Meanwhile the main opposition, the United National Party (UNP) accused the government of using the people as human shields.

"The government is using force to bring people out to take part in demonstrations", says Gayantha Karunathilaka MP, the spokesman of the UNP, "Unemployed graduates, public servants and were transported in government buses by force to take part in the demonstration", said the MP.

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Bishop's House appeals to Vatican to urge Colombo to renovate Vanni churches

[TamilNet, Tuesday, 01 June 2010, 16:49 GMT]

Jaffna Bishop House sent an appeal to the Holy See in Vatican to urge Sri Lanka government to renovate and restore the churches in Vanni destroyed or badly damaged during the war on Vanni, sources in Jaffna said. No one except Jaffna Bishop had been permitted by Sri Lanka Army (SLA) in Vanni to see the churches in Vanni after the war and Jaffna Bishop, Rt. Rev. Thomas Saundranayagam, had been greatly shocked and distressed to find the churches destroyed and plundered, Bishop House circles said. Meanwhile, Sri Lanka government has announced financial aid for renovating the churches in Vanni where people have been allowed to resettle.

Jaffna Bishop inspecting the desecrated statue at one of the churches in Mullaiththeevu, occupied by the Sri Lanka Army

Jaffna Bishop has emphasized in his appeal to the Holy Pope tihe need for the clergy to be allowed to go the churches in Vanni and to at least start the preliminary renovation work of the churches immediately.

Jaffna Bishop, shocked on seeing the churches severely damaged or totally destroyed in war, was further shaken to find them plundered with most of the holy statues in the churches reduced to pieces or removed.

The Bishop has appealed to the Holy See to conduct talks with the Sri Lanka government to expedite the renovation of destructed churches in Vanni.

Historically famous Mullaiththeevu St. Joseph Church has been completely destroyed with the holy statue, thrown out of its enclosed pedestal, lying abandoned on the floor, Bishop House sources said.

Besides, the tiles and other similar properties of the church had been pilfered, they added.