SRI LANKA: Sectarian, anti-Christian bill re-appears*

The Colombo Government is poised to enact laws which could prevent Christian charitable organisations from caring for the estimated 250,000 Tamil civilians displaced by Sinhalese persecution. Dr John Whitehall reports.Radical Buddhist parliamentarians in Sri Lanka are pressing once more for blatantly sectarian laws directed against Christian churches.In 2004, a misleadingly named bill, entitled “Prohibition of Forcible Conversions”, was gazetted for a second reading in the parliament of the Demo…

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