Niranjani Roland, Colombo

Protests, legal challenge in Sri Lanka over death penalty

The executions would be the first in the island nation since 1976

Bombed Sri Lankan shrine celebrates annual feast

Cardinal Ranjith tells Mass that religion cannot be used as an excuse for murder

Sri Lankan Catholics march against drug abuse

Death penalty debate continues as president pledges to proceed with executions of serious drug offenders

Religious brassware industry puts workers in harm's way

Sri Lankans suffer respiratory ailments in 'dying industry' beset by graft, labor shortages, illegal exports

Sri Lankan protesters call for cleaner politics

Priests and nuns join Colombo rally urging an end to corruption that betrays voters

Sri Lankan tea workers demand pay hike

Despite generations of toil, pickers are mostly landless and have few possessions

Families demand new probe into missing 11 in Sri Lanka

Relatives petition UN, key foreign embassies in Colombo and demand president resolve decade-old mystery

Tea workers still fighting for land rights in Sri Lanka

Laborers protest amid claims military has seized their land and govt has sold plots to wealthy developers

Former Tamil Tigers still paying price of war

Rehabilitated ex-combatants struggle to make ends meet as jobs, state support, welfare remain elusive

Sri Lanka church bombing not forgotten by survivors

Still no inquiry or damages awarded 23 years after the Church of St. Peter and St. Paul was bombed during civil war

Schoolgirl's strangling sparks outcry in Sri Lanka

Remote areas like Jaffna 'no longer safe' for girls and women as drug traffickers unfazed by military, activists say

Priests in Sri Lanka relaunch pro-democracy magazine

'Social Justice' aims to raise awareness of burning issues as tsunami of religious violence washes over island

Indonesia pays compensation to sexually abused altar boys

Thou shalt not kill

Filipino lay minister gunned down in Cebu City

The risks of sponsorship of social egg freezing

Thailand’s new curbs further harm press freedom

Indonesian indigenous people fight on despite arrests