{"id":152910,"date":"2025-11-09T17:53:24","date_gmt":"2025-11-10T00:53:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=152910"},"modified":"2025-11-09T17:53:24","modified_gmt":"2025-11-10T00:53:24","slug":"cardinal-blasts-sex-education-move-backed-by-foreign-agencies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2025\/11\/09\/cardinal-blasts-sex-education-move-backed-by-foreign-agencies\/","title":{"rendered":"Cardinal blasts sex education move backed by foreign agencies"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy\u00a0 The Daily Mirror<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>Colombo, Nov. 9 (Daily Mirror) &#8211; Archbishop of Colombo Malcolm Cardinal Ranjith has raised serious concern over what he described as an inappropriate sexual education program\u201d proposed for inclusion in Sri Lanka\u2019s school curriculum next year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Speaking at the reopening ceremony of the renovated St. Stephen\u2019s Church in the Meerigama\u2013Kinadeniya area, the Cardinal said the initiative\u2014scheduled to begin in January under planned education reforms\u2014is being developed under the influence of international organizations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He noted that the proposed curriculum seeks to introduce sexual education from Grade 6, with plans to train teachers and organize related seminars. Is this really education? Isn\u2019t it the parents\u2019 responsibility to teach such matters to their children at the right time?\u201d he questioned.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Cardinal Ranjith further alleged that the program includes lessons on same-sex relationships and birth control, claiming these components are supported by foreign agencies such as the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA).&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>They have given money to the government and the Education Ministry, printed books, and are now implementing a plan that misleads our children,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He warned that the program, scheduled to commence on January 27, could undermine the nation\u2019s cultural and moral values. This is an attempt to destroy our children. They are trying to bring the values of a decayed Western world that has lost religion and morality into our country,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy\u00a0 The Daily Mirror Colombo, Nov. 9 (Daily Mirror) &#8211; Archbishop of Colombo Malcolm Cardinal Ranjith has raised serious concern over what he described as an inappropriate sexual education program\u201d proposed for inclusion in Sri Lanka\u2019s school curriculum next year. Speaking at the reopening ceremony of the renovated St. Stephen\u2019s Church in the Meerigama\u2013Kinadeniya area, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-152910","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152910","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=152910"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152910\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":152911,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152910\/revisions\/152911"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=152910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=152910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=152910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}