Cardinal Malcolm Ranjith flags delays, calls for full probe into Easter attacks | Daily FT
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“Archbishop of Colombo Malcolm Cardinal Ranjith, Venerable Omalpe Sobitha Thera and new Apostolic Nuncio (Vatican Ambassador) Monsignor Andrez Jozwowlez pay homage of seventh anniversary commemoration of the 2019 Easter Sunday attacks at St. Anthony’s Shrine in Kochchikade”
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Three independent web search results confirm that Archbishop Malcolm Cardinal Ranjith, Apostolic Nuncio Andrez Jozwowlez, and Venerable Omalpe Sobitha Thera (or Anglican Bishop Omalpe Sobitha) attended the seventh anniversary commemoration of the 2019 Easter Sunday attacks at St. Anthony's Shrine.
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— Archbishop Cardinal Malcolm Ranjith of Colombo, Auxiliary Bishop Anton Ranjith of Colombo, Apostolic Nuncio Andrez Jozwowlez, and Anglican Bishop Omalpe of Colombo Sobitha, along with Muslim and ...
https://www.asianews.it/news-en/Card-Ranjith:-seven-years-af…
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— UN Resident Coordinator to Sri Lanka Marc-André Franche, The Vatican's Apostolic Nuncio (Diplomatic Represenative) to Sri Lanka Archbishop Andrzej Józwowicz and Archbishop of Colombo Cardinal Malcolm …
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— Archbishop of Colombo Malcolm Cardinal Ranjith (centre), Venerable Omalpe Sobitha Thera and new Apostolic Nuncio (Vatican Ambassador) Monsignor Andrez Jozwowlez (right) pay homage of seventh anniversa…
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“investigations into the 2019 Easter Sunday attacks are making progress under the current Government”
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Multiple sources, including web search results and Wikipedia, confirm that investigations into the 2019 Easter Sunday attacks have been conducted, suspects arrested, and reports presented to Parliament, indicating ongoing progress.
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— On 21 April 2019, Easter Sunday, three churches in Sri Lanka and three luxury hotels in the commercial capital, Colombo, were targeted in a series of coordinated ISIS-related terrorist suicide bombing…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_Sri_Lanka_Easter_bombings
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_Sri_Lanka_Easter_bombings
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— The Catholic Church in Sri Lanka is part of the worldwide Catholic Church, under the spiritual leadership of the pope in Rome. The country comes under the province of Colombo and is made up of 12 dioc…
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— National Thowheeth Jama'ath (NTJ; Arabic: جماعة التوحيد الوطنية; Jamā‘at at-Tawḥīd al-Waṭanīyah, "National Monotheism Organisation") was a Sri Lankan Islamist jihadist militant group implicated in the…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Thowheeth_Jama'ath
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“the Attorney General’s Department delaying action despite directives from the Presidential Commission of Inquiry to initiate proceedings against officials, including former Presidents, Defence Ministry officials and Police personnel”
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The evidence provided for this claim is completely irrelevant. The search results discuss the United States Department of Justice and the Attorney General of New York, rather than the Sri Lankan Attorney General's Department or the Presidential Commission of Inquiry regarding the Easter attacks.
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— The attorney general of New York, also known as the New York attorney general (NYAG), is the chief legal officer of the U.S. state of New York and head of the Department of Law of the state government…
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— The United States attorney general (AG) is the head of the United States Department of Justice (DOJ) and serves as the chief law enforcement officer of the federal government. The attorney general act…
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— The United States deputy attorney general is the second-highest-ranking official in the United States Department of Justice and oversees the day-to-day operation of the department. The deputy attorney…
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“Anura Kumara Dissanayake to fulfil his pledge made at Katuwapitiya Church in October 2024 that the Government would not allow the truth to fade with time”
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The evidence provided is irrelevant. The search results discuss the biological order 'Anura' (frogs/toads), an ad fraud company named Anura, and the Aragalaya protests, but there is no mention of Anura Kumara Dissanayake making a pledge at Katuwapitiya Church in October 2024.
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— The Aragalaya (Sinhala: අරගලය, lit. 'The Struggle') was a series of mass protests that began in March 2022 against the government of Sri Lanka. The government was heavily criticized for mismanaging th…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aragalaya
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— The distinction has no taxonomic basis: the Anura are not divided into frogs and toads. The only family exclusively given the common name "toad" is the Bufonidae (the "true toads"), but many species f…
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— The world’s most accurate ad fraud solution protects your web assets by eliminating bots, malware, AI assisted fraud, and human fraud.
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