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Date: 2009-02-15 23:25:40
CrusadeWatch Website updates - February 7, 2009
US pressures Lanka on Anti-Conversion Bill
( published Saturday, 07 February 2009 17:11)
source:
Daily Mirror, Sri Lanka February 7, 2009
The Sri Lankan ambassador to the United States,
Jaliya Wickramasuriya, received a letter recently, signed by 15 US
Congressmen, requesting that Sri Lanka shelve the proposed legislation
outlawing religious conversion.
The Bill was approved in January, and a final vote in Sri Lanka’s parliament is expected this
month.Â
“We believe this proposed legislation will
harm, not protect, the freedom of religion of the Sri Lankan people,â€
wrote the signatories, who...
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