Peaceful coexistence in a region reputed for conflict and sharing religious traditions among Catholics with different ethnic roots are reflecting Catholic unity in an India-Myanmar border town.

COLOMBO (Reuters) - Sri Lanka's security forces abducted men and women from the ethnic Tamil minority and tortured them in custody long after the end of a bloody civil war in the South Asian island ...

Madras High Court Judge N. Anand Venkatesh highlights Tamil pride, Keezhadi findings, and the importance of voluntary ...

KURUMBASIDDY, Sri Lanka, April 22 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - T he civil war in northern Sri Lanka ended more than a decade ago, but Shan Raj's ancestral home is still surrounded by a fence of ...

People in Sri Lanka are trying to piece their lives back together. It's been a month since the end of nearly three decades of civil war. Many people are celebrating the government's defeat of the ...

Malaiyaha Tamils, who have lived and contributed to Sri Lanka for nearly two centuries, continue to endure severe deprivation ...

BOTH Sri Lanka’s ethnic Sinhalese majority and the Tamil minority think of themselves as original, indigenous inhabitants of the island—an important prop to their political claims and counterclaims.