Cardinal Ranjith urges new Sri Lankan leader to fight poverty
September 24, 2024
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CWN Editor's Note: Cardinal Malcom Ranjith of Colombo visited Sri Lanka’s President Anura Kumara Dissanayake on September 23, and encouraged the country’s newly inaugurated leader to make the needs of the poor a top priority.
The cardinal told reporters that President Dissanayake had promised a serious investigation into the Easter Sunday terror bombings that killed 269 people in 2019. Cardinal Ranjith has persistently criticized the government’s failure to investigate the bombings thoroughly.
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