Young Catholics in Sri Lanka today organized free lunches for thousands of Buddhist pilgrims passing through their village for Vesak celebrations. The youths from St Anthony’s Church in Rotawawa of Kandy diocese cooked the meal and offered soft drinks at a makeshift shed after raising funds by washing cars in the streets. They served about 2,000 pilgrims. “It was an opportunity in gradually dismantling the still existing barriers of mutual fear, suspicion and resentment” between people from different religions, said Gayan Sanjaya, 23, president of the parish youth committee.
