Cardinal Malcolm Ranjith, the Archbishop of Colombo.
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Malcolm Cardinal Ranjith, the Archbishop of Colombo, has requested people to observe a 2-minute silence on April 21 in memory of the victims of Easter Sunday attacks.
Sri Lanka’s Catholic church will observe a two-minute silence on Wednesday morning to mark the second anniversary of the deadly Easter Sunday attacks in 2019 that killed 258 people, including 11 Indians.
Malcolm Cardinal Ranjith, the Archbishop of Colombo, has requested people to observe a two-minute silence at 8.45 a.m. on Wednesday in memory of the victims of the Easter Sunday attacks.
Nine suicide bombers belonging to local Islamist extremist group National Thawheed Jamaat (NTJ) linked to ISIS carried out a series of devastating blasts that tore through three churches and as many luxury hotels on April 21, 2019, killing 258 people, including 11 Indians.
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