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The Christian Reformed Church of Sri Lanka currently has 31 churches and over 5,000 adherents. The church office is located in Galle Road, Colombo. [6] [7] The Christian Reformed Church of Sri Lanka owns several historical church buildings, e.g. in Kalpitiya, Matara and Galle.
Watercolour painting of the Dutch Reformed Church (Wolvendaal), Colombo, by J. L. K. van Dort (1888). In 1736 the governor of Ceylon, Gustaaf Willem van Imhoff, sought approval from the Dutch East India Company (Vereenigde Oost-Indische Compagnie or VOC) to demolish the existing church (Kasteel Kerk) within the Colombo Fort and construct a new one on the same site. [1]
The Sri Lanka Army is the oldest and largest of Sri Lanka's three armed services. Established as the Royal Ceylon Army in 1949, it was renamed when Sri Lanka became a republic in 1972. The Army of approximately 255,000 regular and reserve personnel including 90,000 National Guardsmen and is responsible for overseeing land-based military and ...
DRC permanent representatives to the UN hold the personal rank of ambassador. The full official title and style is His Excellency Permanent Representative from the Democratic Republic of the Congo to the United Nations .
The Democratic Republic of the Congo is in the grip of a civil war that has drawn in military forces from neighboring states, with Uganda and Rwanda supporting the rebel movements that occupy much of the eastern portion of the state – Tutsi, Hutu, Lendu, Hema and other conflicting ethnic groups, political rebels, and various government forces continue fighting in Great Lakes region ...
UN troops in the Sudan, Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), and Central African Republic have been accused of sexual abuse of women, men, and often children. [8]After a process concluding in 2005, UN employees were accused of sexual abuse of a "significant number" of women and girls, many under 18 and some as young as 13, in the DRC. [9]
This is a list of salaries of heads of state and government per year, showing heads of state and heads of government where different, mainly in parliamentary systems.Often a leader is both in presidential systems.
Sri Lanka: Peter Mohan Maithri Pieris [4] 13 January 2021: Permanent Representative of Sri Lanka to the United Nations: 165. Sudan: Al-Harith Idriss Al-Harith Mohamed: 23 May 2023: Permanent Representative of Sudan the United Nations: 166. Suriname: Sunil Algram Sitaldin: 4 January 2022: 167. Sweden: Anna Karin Eneström: 6 January 2020