Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Gnanasara Thero, head of Buddhist Power Force arrives with others at Temple of the Sacred Tooth Relic before the Buddhist monks ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. By Philip Pullella and Frank Jack Daniel COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (Reuters) - Pope Francis paid a surprise visit to a Buddhist temple on ...

Pope Francis made a spontaneous visit to a Buddhist temple Wednesday afternoon during his two-day visit to this island nation in what appears to be the second such visit by a pope. Vatican spokesman ...

The Sri Lankan government is planning to give 359 elephant tusks to a Buddhist temple, a move that critics say is flouting the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES). The ...

Aruni Ruwandathi, a Christian graduate student, was surprised to find a bas-relief sculpture of Jesus washing the feet of his disciples at Tulana in Kelaniya. Buddhist monk Ven. Uttarananda Thera had ...

KANDY, Sri Lanka (Reuters) - Sri Lanka's most powerful Buddhist nationalist group rallied its hardline base on Sunday, saying they must aim to take democratic control of parliament to protect the ...