Matara (Sri Lanka) (AFP) - At a temple in the heart of Sri Lanka's Sinhalese south, an unusual attempt at reconciliation is underway after decades of ethnic bloodshed, even as the government warns of ...

Pope Francis made a spontaneous visit to a Buddhist temple Wednesday afternoon during his two-day visit to this island nation in what appears to be the second such visit by a pope. Vatican spokesman ...

Vets are preparing to airlift an Asian elephant from Sri Lanka back to its home country of Thailand this weekend, after it spent more than two decades at a Buddhist temple where activists alleged it ...

Sarnath glowed with devotion as Lord Buddha’s sacred relics were carried in a grand procession with Sri Lankan music, dances, ...

Long-simmering religious tensions between Sri Lanka's Buddhist majority and Muslim minority are fanning false claims that ...

On Wednesday evening following his scheduled events, Pope Francis made a brief, unplanned visit to a Buddhist temple in Sri Lanka in a gesture of interreligious dialogue, the Holy See press officer ...

Buddhist monks in Sri Lanka have decided to turn off lights at temples across the country on Oct. 9, an important Buddhist feast day, to protest the steep electricity tariff hike. The council of ...

The man in the khaki vest slurped noisily from his cup, descended briefly into scowling meditation, spat the contents into a sink and then unleashed a torrent of approving descriptors, lavishly ...

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Veterinarians are preparing to airlift an Asian elephant from Sri Lanka back to its home country of Thailand this weekend after it spent more than two decades at a Buddhist ...