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Surviving statue of Risen Jesus with blast marks and human blood after the Easter attack. On 21 April 2019, Easter Sunday, the church was one in a series of targets of a string of bomb blasts across Sri Lanka. Media reported at least 93 people killed at the church, UNICEF reported that 27 children died and 10 children were injured.
2019 Sri Lanka Easter bombings. St. Philip Neri Church shelling. Categories: Attacks on religious buildings and structures in Sri Lanka. Churches in Sri Lanka. Attacks on churches in Asia. Attacks on churches by country.
The bombs set off by Islamist militants on Easter Sunday 2019 caused widespread panic fueled by fake news and misinformation about the security situation, specifically targeting the Muslim minority in Sri Lanka. The government reacted by blocking access to social media channels [5] which they claimed were being used by mobs to coordinate ...
2 February 1936. Completed. 1946. The St. Sebastian's Church, Negombo, also known as St. Sebastian's Church, Wellaweediya, is a Roman Catholic church in Negombo, in Sri Lanka. [1] It is architecturally based on the Reims Cathedral in France and is built in Gothic Revival style. [2] Saint Sebastian is the patron saint of the city of Negombo.
Saint Stephen's Church, Negombo, is an Anglican church in Negombo, Sri Lanka. It was consecrated on 31 July 1880 in the presence of dedicated devotees which included several Wesleyans . Service was also conducted in the Sinhalese language on the occasion when a Sinhalese woman was also baptised, under the sponsorship of two English women.
On 21 April 2019, Easter Sunday, three churches in Sri Lanka and three luxury hotels in the commercial capital, Colombo, were targeted in a series of coordinated ISIS -related terrorist suicide bombings. Later that day, two smaller explosions occurred at a housing complex in Dematagoda and a guest house in Dehiwala.
Neoclassicism. Groundbreaking. 1874. Completed. 1924. Interior of the church. St. Mary's Church is a landmark edifice, a Roman Catholic church in the heart of Negombo. It is one of the largest cathedrals in Sri Lanka. [1]
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