{"id":92514,"date":"2019-08-23T15:25:58","date_gmt":"2019-08-23T22:25:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=92514"},"modified":"2019-08-23T15:25:58","modified_gmt":"2019-08-23T22:25:58","slug":"all-in-sri-lanka-enjoy-religious-freedom-unlike-some-asian-countries-un-expert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2019\/08\/23\/all-in-sri-lanka-enjoy-religious-freedom-unlike-some-asian-countries-un-expert\/","title":{"rendered":"All in Sri Lanka  enjoy religious freedom unlike some Asian countries: UN Expert"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em><strong data-rich-text-format-boundary=\"true\">Lahiru Pothmulla <\/strong>Courtesy The Daily Mirror<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>The visiting UN Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Religion or Belief, Ahmed Shaheed, when he called on Opposition Leader Mahinda Rajapaksa at the latter&#8217;s Chamber at the Parliamentary Complex in Battaramulla, has said that all ethnic groups in Sri Lanka enjoyed the freedom of religion in comparison to some other countries in Asia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to a statement issued by the Opposition Leader&#8217;s Office, the UN Expert had also said the reconciliation among the different ethnicities and religious groups in the country was commendable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The UN Expert, who undertook a visit to the North and East, also mentioned that the residents have said Mr. Rajapaksa&#8217;s Government had contributed immensely to develop the infrastructure of the region.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>During the meeting, Mr.Rajapaksa said the country cannot forge ahead if there was no faith among different communities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mr. Shaheed, who arrived in Sri Lanka on August 15, will end his visit on 26th.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lahiru Pothmulla Courtesy The Daily Mirror The visiting UN Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Religion or Belief, Ahmed Shaheed, when he called on Opposition Leader Mahinda Rajapaksa at the latter&#8217;s Chamber at the Parliamentary Complex in Battaramulla, has said that all ethnic groups in Sri Lanka enjoyed the freedom of religion in comparison to some [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-92514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92514","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=92514"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92514\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}