Posts Tagged ‘Religious tension’

Sri Lanka curfew follows Catholic attack on Muslims

Monday, May 13th, 2019

Sri Lankan police imposed a curfew from Sunday to dawn on Monday in a Catholic-majority town 80 kilometres north of Colombo after mobs attacked a mosque and Muslim-owned businesses there. The situation blew up when a resident apparently misunderstood a Muslim man’s Facebook post as posing a threat to Christians. The Muslim man has been Read more