Visitors to Sri Lanka tend to stay in the south of the island, or explore the tea plantations and ancient Buddhist sites in its central highlands. Few venture to the north of the country, where civil ...

I didn't just visit Jaffna in Sri Lanka. I returned to it, like a forgotten verse in a prayer whispered by generations. The palmyra trees still stood like old soldiers, their fronds rattling like ...

Tamil families in Thaiyiddy were displaced in 1990 by the military. An area of six acres is now home to the Tissa Vihara Buddhist temple. Despite the end of the civil war in 2009, locals have not seen ...

The diocese stretches over nearly 4,400 square kilometers. As per 2024, the population of this particular region is 1,637,000 of which 267,650 are Catholics. Most of the people are Hindus. Tamils are ...

Reporting from ALONG THE A9 HIGHWAY, Sri Lanka — The road from Colombo, Sri Lanka’s graceful seaside capital in the south, to the northern town of Jaffna has rarely been a straight shot. Most of the ...