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Christ, The Easter Attacks, and Justice

Submitted by amalan on Thu, 05/14/2020 - 09:59

by Shalomi Daniel, Sanjayan Rajasingham, Sushmitha Thayanandan and Shanil Wijesinha

13.05.2020

For all Sri Lankans, but especially for Catholics and Christians, Easter can never be separated from the events of April 21st 2019. The Easter attacks claimed over 250 lives, injured many others, and devastated us all. Investigations into the attacks began at once and several suspects have been arrested since. There is no question that the perpetrators must be brought to justice. And if inaction by state and government officials was one reason they occurred, then they must be held responsible.

Download the full article here

Covid 19

Submitted by amalan on Tue, 03/24/2020 - 19:53

An article by Dr. Vasanthi Thevanesam, member of the GCF Committee and former Cadre Chair of the Department of Microbiology of the University of Peradeniya and currently its Professor Emeritus,  on COVID 19 has been developed into a pdf and slide show by the GCF Committee. Kindly find the Sinhala version translated by Kolitha and slide presentation developed by Devaka.

Sinhala SlideShow

The world as creation

Submitted by amalan on Fri, 02/21/2020 - 19:21

(Chapter 2 of Vinoth Ramachandra, Gods That Fail: Modern Idolatry and Christian Mission (1996; Rev.Ed. Wipf & Stock, 2016))


“What is it that breathes fire into the equations and makes a universe for them to describe? The usual approach of science of constructing a mathematical model cannot answer the questions of why there should be a universe for the model to describe. Why does the universe go to all the bother of existing?”

- Stephen Hawking, A Brief History of Time 1

 

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