{"id":87482,"date":"2019-04-23T14:10:28","date_gmt":"2019-04-23T21:10:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=87482"},"modified":"2019-04-23T14:10:28","modified_gmt":"2019-04-23T21:10:28","slug":"catholic-church-and-terrorists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2019\/04\/23\/catholic-church-and-terrorists\/","title":{"rendered":"Catholic church and terrorists"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Dr.P.A.Samaraweera<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>With the terror attack on Easter Sunday, the death toll had risen\nto 290. Nearly 500 being injured. It had been reported that 24 suspects are in\ncustody and details about them are not known. The suspicion is on a Muslim\nterrorist organisation. However, on the day of the attack, Human Right\nActivists pointed the finger on Buddhists and quoted chapter and verse about\nattacks on Churches allegedly by Buddhists. They tried in vain to blame the\nBuddhists for the Easter attack.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As everyone knows, we had similar experiences prior to 2009 by\nLTTE terrorists. Bombs exploded in buses, trains, bus stations, at Sri Maha\nBodiya Anuradhapura, Temple of the Tooth in Kandy, Arantalawa and so on. But\nthe LTTE never attacked a single Catholic Church because their sympathies were\nwith the LTTE. When the LTTE &nbsp;was having a field day attacking Buddhists\nand the country, the Church was silent and never condemned the LTTE. It is an\nopen secret that the Catholic Church had their sympathies with the LTTE. Some\nperspective observers have publicly accused the church of being the invisible\nhand supporting the LTTE&#8217;s violent campaign to destroy the unitary state,\nestablish another sovereign state called &#8216;Eelam&#8217; and in turn reduce the power\nof the majority Sinhalese and that of the Buddhists. Before the General\nElection in 2000, it was reported that the Catholic Bishop of Jaffna had\nrequested all Tamil political parties to cease functioning so that the LTTE\ncould act as the sole representative of the Tamil people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We know of instances where the LTTE paid Christian Clerics from\nwestern countries to visit Sri Lanka for short visits to study the ground\nsituation &nbsp;and then go back and preach in seminars about Sinhalese\nBuddhists attacking &#8216;Tamils&#8217; and that the ethnic crisis is a conflict between\nBuddhists and Tamils and not between the State and terrorists! These Clerics\nwrote adverse reports heavily tilted in favour of the LTTE. Funds collected by\nthe Clerics from these charities, seminars and functions went to the\nterrorists.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This Easter, for the first time, the Catholic Church had\nexperienced getting attacked by terrorists and given a taste of terrorism.\nBuddhists experienced this for 30 years. However, today Sri Lanka condemns the\ncowardly attack on innocent civilians.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr.P.A.Samaraweera With the terror attack on Easter Sunday, the death toll had risen to 290. Nearly 500 being injured. It had been reported that 24 suspects are in custody and details about them are not known. The suspicion is on a Muslim terrorist organisation. However, on the day of the attack, Human Right Activists pointed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87482","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-drpasamaraweera"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87482","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=87482"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87482\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}