An astrologer who made several predictions that Sri Lanka's President Maithripala Sirisena would die has been arrested and released on bail, police said Wednesday. Most Sri Lankans follow astrologers' advice, and the suspect, Vijitha Rohana Wijemuni, is a former navy sailor convicted of attempting to assassinate India's then-Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi in 1987.
South Africa went 1-0 up in the three-match T20I series against Sri Lanka with a 19-run win in the first rain-marred T20I at Supersport Park, Centurion. South Africa batting first had put on 126 for 5 in 10 overs, after Sri Lanka had invited them to bat first.
A Christmas service pamphlet from a Sri Lankan church went viral after it mistakenly printed Tupac's "Hail Mary" lyrics instead of the words to the 1,000-year-old prayer that includes passages from the Gospel of Luke. Instead, Columbo churchgoers at Joy to the World 2016, one of Sri Lanka's largest carol services, were surprised to see lines like, "Revenge is like the sweetest joy next to gettin' p***y" and "Killuminati, all through your body.
Christmas carols aren't supposed to have lyrics like "revenge is like the sweetest joy, next to getting p***y." What they expected was the words to the Hail Mary, a common Christian prayer.
The tree costs $80,000 and was criticized by the Catholic Church as a "waste of money." The church suggested that the funds better be spent on helping the poor.