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.

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.

Sri 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 ... as he explained in an essay in the anthology “The Sri Lanka Reader.” Ruskin’s essay “Unto This Last,” with its egalitarian ...

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 ...

The Vatican has named 167 people who died in the 2019 Easter bombings in Sri Lanka as "heroes of faith ... after campaigning on a national security platform. He made a statement in parliament ...

They were once seen as heroes of the nation, the almost mythical warrior-king leaders who defeated the separatists in a bloody civil war. Yet the final days of Sri Lanka’s Rajapaksa dynasty tell ...

“Back home, we get together as families in our villages and pay tribute to the national heroes of Sri Lanka who sacrificed so much to bring Independence from British rule in 1948. We also think ...