Sources: BBC
Fifty-one people are arrested by the Sri Lankan Navy while trying to emigrate to Australia by sea. Police said that undocumented immigration has increased because of Sri Lanka's economic crisis. 2022-07-3
The entire cabinet of Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa resigns following days of economic protests in Sri Lanka. 2022-04-3
French religious sister Nathalie Becquart is named by Pope Francis one of the Undersecretaries of the Synod of Bishops, becoming the first woman to reach that office and having a right to vote in the Synod. 2021-02-6
Pope Francis accepts the resignation of Auxiliary Bishop Richard Brendan Higgins, the episcopal vicar for veterans affairs of the Archdiocese for the Military Services. During his career, Bishop Higgins’ is vicar for veterans affairs and responsible for more than 200 chaplains serving at over 150 veterans' affairs hospitals in the United States, Puerto Rico and Guam. His retirement at age 75 is announced in Washington, D.C. by Archbishop Christophe Pierre, the apostolic nuncio to the United States. 2021-01-2
Sri Lanka postpones, for a second time, the election from June 20 to August 5 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. 2020-06-10
Israeli President Shimon Peres meets with Pope Francis at a time of mounting tension in the Middle East. The last meeting between the Pontiff and the Israeli leader came in June, when the Pope invited Peres, along with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, to join in a prayer service for peace. 2014-09-5
Pope Francis blesses thousands of Harley Davidson motorcycle enthusiasts on the company's 110th anniversary. 2013-06-16
A group of astrobiologists including Chandra Wickramasinghe say that algae-like structures inside a Polonnaruwa meteorite, that fell on December 29, 2012, in Sri Lanka, are clear evidence of panspermia, the idea that life exists throughout the Universe. 2013-03-11
Former chief of the Sri Lankan armed forces Sarath Fonseka admits he expects to be jailed after being charged with corruption and believes the verdict has been decided in advance; Fonseka has been elected to the Sri Lankan parliament since the charges were pressed. 2010-08-19
Protesters try to enter the United Nations compound in Colombo, Sri Lanka, calling for the United Nations to abandon an inquiry into alleged human rights abuses in the final stages of the civil war between the government and Tamil rebels that ended last year. Staff are unable to leave until being assisted by Sri Lankan police. 2010-07-6