Posted on 04/21/2019 3:38:43 PM PDT by Zhang Fei
‘Aadara Sevana’ (Abode of Love) in Anuradhapura is a social service cum prayer centre run by the Methodist Church in Sri Lanka. It is located a few kilometres away from the Anuradhapura town at a place called Kundichchaankulama in Sinhala and Kundichchaankulam in Tamil. The relatively-unknown Methodist Centre in the North Central Province has been in the news lately for extremely-troubling reasons. Aadara Sevana was the target of a mob attack on Sunday, April 14, celebrated worldwide by Christians as Palm Sunday. The mob comprising 20 to 25 youths had issued death threats, pelted stones and thrown firecrackers. They later locked the gates and held a tiny congregation of fifteen laity and two clergymen as virtual hostages for nearly two hours until police were summoned to rescue them.
It later became known that the Methodist Centre had been stoned earlier too. A mob had attacked the place with stones a fortnight ago on March 31. The mobs have been demanding that prayer services should not be conducted at the centre and that Christians from other areas should not be allowed to worship at this place. The Methodist Church has announced an hour-long ‘Silent Vigil’ from 2.00 to 3.00 p.m. on Galle Road opposite the Kollupitiya Methodist Church on Good Friday (April 19) to emphasise the right to religious freedom of Christians in Sri Lanka.
The Methodist Church of Sri Lanka is a Protestant Christian denomination that was established after the arrival in 1814 of five missionaries from Britain in the island known then as Ceylon. The Methodist Church in Sri Lanka has grown over a period of 203 years into an institution with some 32,000 members. It has 155 congregations and 95 pastors.
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The police had actually sent out warnings about the possibility of Muslim attacks on Christian sites but it seems that they weren’t taken seriously.
mobs are spontaneous
coordinated attacks are not mobs
I suspect that we’d be seeing more of this if it weren’t for the fact that word is getting out that churches now have armed security.
One church I know has uniformed, armed LEO’s who are members of the congregation about on Sunday morning.
Another one I am aware of has concealed carry permit holders attending, any of which I would trust completely with a loaded firearm.
Kinda reminds me of spontaneous riots in far off places, where the local Muslims are barely literate but have professionally made signs in English or French...
... oh, and the press knows to have their camera there....
Yep, good point.
I have yet to hear a single news report mention the word “Muslim” or “Islamic” with the bombings.
mobs are spontaneous
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Not the usual suspects.
Violent Buddhist?
But...Holywood says their pacifist, and nonviolent.
... oh, and the press knows to have their camera there....
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In the case of the Palestinians, the press supplies the signs and writes the script.
Or “Christian” victims.
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