LankaWeb – “No Government of Sri Lanka has so far ventured to establish a Commission of Inquiry to probe these Colonial atrocities directed against indigenous faiths, Buddhism and Hinduism, with a view to preparing a Report for the UN demanding compensation and restitutio in integrum”

Senaka Weeraratna AI Overview Franciscan Friars were the pioneering religious order responsible for the early, systematic destruction of indigenous religious sites and forced conversions in Portuguese-controlled Goa and Ceylon. While the formal judicial body known as the Goa Inquisition was later requested by Jesuit missionary Francis Xavier and officially established in 1560, Franciscan missionaries laid […]