Sri Lankan police rounded up almost two dozen people suspected of causing violent clashes by spreading rumors that Muslims were going to attack a sacred Buddhist monument, officials said. Muslim and ...

MULLEGAMA, Sri Lanka-- Religious violence flared anew in the hills of central Sri Lanka on Wednesday despite a state of emergency, with Buddhist mobs sweeping through towns and villages, burning ...

Long-simmering religious tensions between Sri Lanka's Buddhist majority and Muslim minority are fanning false claims that Muslim politician Muneer Mulaffer was named deputy minister for Buddhist ...

Under China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), a curious entanglement of economic investments and Buddhist diplomacy has been carried out in countries like Sri Lanka. This may at first appear an odd ...

A recent road accident involving a Sinhalese truck driver and four Muslim men in the Kandy district of Sri Lanka quickly spiralled into violent conflict following news that the driver died of his ...

Sri Lankan police are seeking to arrest a hard-line Buddhist monk for causing religious and racial disharmony and threatening police officers. Several complaints have been lodged against Venerable ...

A group of Buddhist monks in Sri Lanka has urged all political parties to maintain Buddhism's primacy amid speculation of a Marxist party's rise to power in the highly contested presidential polls.

Seven Buddhist monks, including an Indian national, died when a cable-operated rail cart overturned at a forest monastery in northwestern Sri Lanka, police said on Thursday. Six others were injured in ...

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COLOMBO (Reuters) - Sri Lanka's prime minister said on Wednesday Buddhism will remain paramount in the bitterly divided island, seeking to head off protests led by the powerful Buddhist clergy against ...

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — An elephant taking part in a Buddhist pageant in Sri Lanka has run berserk, injuring at least 18 people. Video on Derana Television of Saturday night’s pageant in Kotte, near ...

KANDY, Sri Lanka (Reuters) - Sri Lanka's most powerful Buddhist nationalist group rallied its hardline base on Sunday, saying they must aim to take democratic control of parliament to protect the ...