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1 Hardliners make new push for anti-conversion laws 08 December 2011
2 Violence against Christians 28 July 2011
3 Pastors under attack 10 February 2011
4 Pray for Christians in India and Sri Lanka 26 August 2010
5 Mob attacks church 09 December 2009
6 Church attacked by Buddhists 18 November 2009
7 Pastor assaulted 22 July 2009
8 Church robbed, pastor threatened 22 April 2009
9 Religious liberty organizations call attention to Sri Lankan crisis 08 April 2009
10 Violence against Christians 01 April 2009
11 Update: Sri Lanka defers anti-conversion bill debate 04 March 2009
12 Update: Christians lobby against anti-conversion bill 21 January 2009
13 Anti-conversion law under review 14 January 2009
14 Pastor killed in Sri Lanka 22 October 2008
15 Church hall burned and believers threatened 01 October 2008
16 Christians Attacked in Sri Lanka 09 July 2008
17 Pastor Assaulted in Ampara 25 June 2008
18 Christian Girl Beaten by Fellow Students in Middeniya 18 June 2008
19 Priest Killed in a Claymore Mine Attack 30 April 2008
20 Update on Widow of Martyred Pastor 26 March 2008
 
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Sri Lanka Profile

Location
Asia

Population
21,283,913 (July 2011 est.)

Ethnicity (%)
Sinhalese (73.8), Sri Lankan Moors (7.2), Indian Tamil (4.6), Sri Lankan Tamil (3.9), other (0.5), unspecified (10)

Religion (%)
Buddhist (70.02), Hindu (12.80), Muslim (8.52), Christian (8.38), Other (0.28)

Leader
President Mahinda Percy Rajapaksa

Government type
Republic

Legal system
A highly complex mixture of English common law, Roman-Dutch, Kandyan and Jaffna Tamil law

Statistics provided by CIA World Factbook and Operation World.

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Sri Lankan church attacked

Hardliners make new push for anti-conversion laws
(December 08, 2011)

Violence against Christians
(July 28, 2011)

Pastors under attack
(February 10, 2011)

Pray for Christians in India and Sri Lanka
(August 26, 2010)

Mob attacks church
(December 09, 2009)

Church attacked by Buddhists
(November 18, 2009)

Pastor assaulted
(July 22, 2009)

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