{"id":101206,"date":"2020-04-16T15:53:03","date_gmt":"2020-04-16T22:53:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=101206"},"modified":"2020-04-16T15:53:03","modified_gmt":"2020-04-16T22:53:03","slug":"two-minute-silence-on-april-21-in-remembrance-of-easter-attack-victims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2020\/04\/16\/two-minute-silence-on-april-21-in-remembrance-of-easter-attack-victims\/","title":{"rendered":"Two-minute silence on April 21 in remembrance of Easter attack victims"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy Adaderana<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>Archbishop of Colombo His Eminence Malcolm Cardinal Ranjith has appealed to all Sri Lankans to observe a two-minute silence at 8.45 am on April 21, in remembrance of those who were killed in the terrorist carnage on Easter Sunday last year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In a media briefing at the Archbishop\u2019s House in Colombo today (16), the Cardinal requested the public to observe the two-minute silence at their respective homes, without holding any gatherings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"\u0db4\u0dcf\u0dc3\u0dca\u0d9a\u0dd4 \u0db4\u0dca\u200d\u0dbb\u0dc4\u0dcf\u0dbb\u0dba \u0dc3\u0db8\u0dca\u0db6\u0db1\u0dca\u0db0 \u0db4\u0dbb\u0dd3\u0d9a\u0dca\u0dc2\u0dab \u0db4\u0dc0\u0dad\u0dca\u0dc0\u0dcf\u0d9c\u0dd9\u0db1 \u0dba\u0dcf\u0db8 \u0d9c\u0dd0\u0db1 \u0d9a\u0dcf\u0daf\u0dd2\u0db1\u0dbd\u0dca \u0dc4\u0dd2\u0db8\u0dd2\u0dba\u0db1\u0dca\u0d9c\u0dd9\u0db1\u0dca \u0dbb\u0da2\u0dba\u0da7 \u0dc3\u0dca\u0dad\u0dd4\u0dad\u0dd2\u0dba\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7ExxJRxY3Aw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Speaking further, he noted that all the programs that were planned for the one-year commemoration of Eater attacks have to be adjusted due to the situation that prevails in the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Few suggestions made by the Cardinal to commemorate the victims of the carnage are as follows:<br>\u2022Ringing the bells at all churches at 8.40 am on April 21. (The Cardinal also made a request to Buddhist temples to ring the bells in solidarity.)<br>\u2022Observing a two-minute silence<br>\u2022Lighting a lamp and observe religious practices at homes<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Cardinal also commended the government for continuing the investigations into the Easter Sunday terror attacks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy Adaderana Archbishop of Colombo His Eminence Malcolm Cardinal Ranjith has appealed to all Sri Lankans to observe a two-minute silence at 8.45 am on April 21, in remembrance of those who were killed in the terrorist carnage on Easter Sunday last year. In a media briefing at the Archbishop\u2019s House in Colombo today (16), [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-101206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-terrorism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101206","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101206"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101206\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}