OscailtSri Lanka:Catholic Church under scrutinyToday I am writing to draw your urgent attention on an urgent situation which is rightly raised by Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC). Fr. Prasad Pereira obstructs the use of a national monument for the disappeared in Sri Lanka. Due to the unwise and unfriendly actions of Fr. Prasad Pereira towards families of the disappeared people the whole Church and its love towards the fellow brothers is questioned by the peace loving people.
Breaking news: Italian MP, Sgarbi denounces the Statistical Fraud on COVID-19. The speech of the Member of Parliament Vittorio Sgarbi in the session of the Italian Camera, Meeting no. 331 of Friday 24, April, 2020. Vittorio Sgarbi, denounces the closure of 60% of the businesses for 25,000 COVID-19 Deaths, of which the National Institute of Health says 96.3% died NOT of COVID-19 but of other pathologies. That means only 925 have died of the virus. 24,075 have died of other things.2011-10-22T09:33:26+00:00Indymedia Irelandimc-ireland@lists.indymedia.iehttp://www.indymedia.ie/atomfullposts?story_id=100765http://www.indymedia.ie/graphics/feedlogo.gifAppealing to Rome? Good luck with that! You'll need it!!http://www.indymedia.ie/article/100765#comment2850612011-10-22T09:33:26+00:00SerfHa! Good luck there William! You'll need it!
Because the church sides with power...Ha! Good luck there William! You'll need it!<br>
Because the church sides with power. It has always done so throughout history. Just look to general pinochet in Chile for a recent example of how things work.<br><br>
Powers that be in Sri Lanka are probably none too keen on the uncomfortable fact that people have been "disappeared" being brought up in a visible way over and over. They'd probably like to sweep that one under the carpet. A quick word in the religious head's ear is all it takes. After all, they probably don't like those decentralised buddhists eroding their potential power base much either.<br><br>
Thats how it works William. Disgusting I know. And appealing to Rome is a joke, take it from us in Ireland where the church systematically abused and raped our children for decades, then moved the rapists around to other communities to start again whenever word got out<br><br>
If you must have a faith then might I suggest maybe switcing to buddishm? Seems less corrupt! to me. Meanwhile Don't expect much co-operation from Rome when power is involved.Sri Lankan Buddhismhttp://www.indymedia.ie/article/100765#comment2850882011-10-22T20:50:09+00:00From someone who lived in Sri Lanka...Serf you clearly have an extremely narrow knowledge of Sri Lanka's civil war.The...Serf you clearly have an extremely narrow knowledge of Sri Lanka's civil war.<br><br>There have been serious human rights abuses at extreme levels committed on both side of the Tamil- Sinhalese ethnic war. However it has to be acknowledged that the vast majority of these human rights abuses have been inflicted on the Tamil people by the Sinhalese majority, inparticular through the Sri Lankan Army.<br><br>The Sri Lankan Army's atrocities, including mass civilian massacres and the incarcerations of 100,000s of Tamil ppl in concentration camps, is openly promoted by Buddhist nationalism against the perceived threat of Hinduism. (To generalise: the majority of Sinhalese ppl are Buddhist, the majority of Tamil ppl are Hindu).<br><br>In Sri Lanka, Buddhist monks are given automatic seats in parliament and have huge control over public and military policy there. They wield this power every bit as strongly as the Catholic Church did in past generations in Ireland. Except the results in Sri Lanka have been far more devastating. During the last flaring up of the civil war in 2008/9 the Buddhist wheel and buddhist flag were openly put on Sri Lankan army recruitment posters, with pictures of Buddhist monks bowing to Sinhalese soldiers. <br><br>This is not to blame the entire civil war and the associated attrocities on the Buddhist establishment. That would be very overly simplistic and not reflective of the extremely complex causes of the civil war in SL. <br><br>Buddhism is as problematic as any other organised religion. To suggest to a human rights activist concerned with the practices of disappearances in Sri Lanka to change their religion to Buddhist would be laughable if it wasn't so offensive. <br><br><br>let me rephrase that so...http://www.indymedia.ie/article/100765#comment2850942011-10-23T06:30:20+00:00SerfI bow to your superior knowledge of Sri Lanka sir/madam
Personally I recommend ...I bow to your superior knowledge of Sri Lanka sir/madam<br><br>
Personally I recommend no religion, you can't really trust any religion. but buddhism (in theory) seemed like the lesser of two evils and quite peaceful. Guess I should have gone with my gut after all! ;-)<br><br>
William. Maybe consider atheism. i.e absence of a religion. Apparently the lot of them are equally corrupt!! even the seemingly peaceful ones.<br><br>
Sounds like them buddhists in sri lanka have a lot of shitty karma coming their way!!! Sometimes it seems like religious types don't even take the tenets of their own religions seriously! but then again how could anyone!!! ;-)
Wiki infohttp://www.indymedia.ie/article/100765#comment2868382012-01-03T17:11:27+00:00RomeoThe Roman Catholic Church in Sri Lanka is part of the worldwide Roman Catholic C...The Roman Catholic Church in Sri Lanka is part of the worldwide Roman Catholic Church, under the spiritual leadership of the Pope and curia in Rome.The country comes under the province of Colombo and is divided into 11 dioceses including one archdiocese.There are approximately 1.4 million Catholics in Sri Lanka representing around 7% of the total population.
In 1995, at a ceremony in Colombo, Pope John Paul II beatified Father Joseph Vaz, an early missionary to the country, who was known as the Apostle of Ceylon.