Galagodaatte Gnanasara leads a Sinhalese Buddhist nationalist group and is a close ally of ousted former president Rajapaksa [Getty Images] A hardline Sri Lankan monk who is a close ally of ousted ...

Galagodaatte Gnanasara was convicted on Thursday for the remarks, which date back to 2016. Sri Lanka rarely convicts Buddhist monks, but this marks the second time that Gnanasara, who has repeatedly ...

A Sri Lankan court jailed a politically influential, firebrand Buddhist monk on Jan. 9, putting him behind bars for a second time for insulting Islam and stoking religious hatred in the island nation.

COLOMBO — A court in Sri Lanka jailed a politically influential, firebrand Buddhist monk on Thursday, put-ting him behind bars for a second time for insulting Islam and stoking religious hatred in the ...

COLOMBO: A Sri Lankan court has imprisoned a politically powerful Buddhist monk for the second time for defaming Islam and inciting religious hate in the island nation. Galagodaatte Gnanasara ...

Sri Lanka rarely convicts Buddhist monks, but this marks the second time that Gnanasara, who has repeatedly been accused of hate crimes and anti-Muslim violence, has been jailed. The sentence ...

A Sri Lankan court jailed a politically influential, firebrand Buddhist monk on Thursday, putting him behind bars for a second time for insulting Islam and stoking religious hatred in the island ...

In a monastery in central Myanmar, a Buddhist monk, Wathawa, rallies his militia with a cry: “What’s our spirit like?” “The spirit of iron!” shout a group of rifle-bearing men ...

COLOMBO, Jan 9: A firebrand Sri Lankan Buddhist majority hardliner monk was on Thursday sentenced to nine months imprisonment by the Colombo Magistrate’s Court for his Islamophobic comments made in ...