St. Anthony's Shrine, Kochchikade in Colombo, the national ... from Catholics of Sri Lanka to go with a petition to submit to the Vatican to officially declare them as heroes of faith.

Questions are raised as to how the Government of Sri Lanka (GoSL), has over the years ... hence the need to consider them as two of our national heroes. When President Anura Kumara Dissanayake ...

People look at names on a memorial wall during the National War Heroes' Day in Kotte, Sri Lanka, May 19, 2025. Sri Lanka marked the 16th National War Heroes' Day celebrations on Monday.

The Vatican has named 167 people who died in the 2019 Easter bombings in Sri Lanka as "heroes of faith". The country's cardinal, ... after campaigning on a national security platform.

S ri Lanka, May 19 -- The 16th National War Heroes' Commemoration Ceremony will be held today (May 19) at the National War Hero Cenotaph in Sri Jayawardhanapura under the patronage of President ...

Hailed as a national hero and modeling himself on Ghandi’s ... as he explained in an essay in the anthology “The Sri Lanka Reader.” Ruskin’s essay “Unto This Last,” with its ...

Sri Lanka will commemorate hundreds of brave men and women who made supreme sacrifices for the protection of sovereignty the territorial integriety at a simple but solemn ceremony to be held at the ...