{"id":31713,"date":"2014-07-08T21:58:09","date_gmt":"2014-07-09T01:58:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=31713"},"modified":"2014-07-08T22:36:25","modified_gmt":"2014-07-09T02:36:25","slug":"bodu-bala-senas-gnanasara-thero-demands-apology-from-pope-francis-when-visiting-sri-lanka-for-the-crimesof-the-portugesedutch-and-british","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=31713","title":{"rendered":"Bodu Bala Sena&#8217;s Gnanasara Thero Demands Apology from Pope Francis when visiting Sri Lanka for the &#8220;Crimes&#8221; of the Portugese, Dutch and British"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Bodu Bala Sena Leader Ven.Galagoda Aththe Gnanasara Thera said Pope Francis should apologise to Sri Lankan Buddhists over the alleged atrocities committed by Christian colonialists.<\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_31720\" style=\"width: 266px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/PF070814.jpeg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-31720\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/PF070814.jpeg\" alt=\"pic via: twitter.com\/Pontifex\" width=\"256\" height=\"256\" class=\"size-full wp-image-31720\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-31720\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">pic via: twitter.com\/Pontifex<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\u201cPrevious Popes have publicly apologised to certain countries because they destroyed, they killed. We had a similar situation, where most of the Buddhist temples were destroyed by them and Buddhist monks were killed. We would like to see a  public apology from him,\u201d Gnanasara Thera told a meeting with foreign correspondents in Colombo.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n\u201cWe are waiting till the Pope comes to see what he is going to say about the crimes here,\u201d the Thera said adding that \u201cThe Portuguese, Dutch and the British are all the same to us.<\/p>\n<p>The Pope is expected to visit the Philippines and Sri Lanka in January.<em>Courtesy: Daily Mirror<\/em><\/p>\n<div id=\"tweetbutton31713\" class=\"tw_button\" style=\"float:right;margin-left:10px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdbsjeyaraj.com%2Fdbsj%2F%3Fp%3D31713&amp;text=Bodu%20Bala%20Sena%26%238217%3Bs%20Gnanasara%20Thero%20Demands%20Apology%20from%20Pope%20Francis%20when%20visiting%20Sri%20Lanka%20for%20the...%20&amp;related=&amp;lang=en&amp;count=horizontal\" class=\"twitter-share-button\"  style=\"width:55px;height:22px;background:transparent url('https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-tweet-button\/tweetn.png') no-repeat  0 0;text-align:left;text-indent:-9999px;display:block;\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bodu Bala Sena Leader Ven.Galagoda Aththe Gnanasara Thera said Pope Francis should apologise to Sri Lankan Buddhists over the alleged atrocities committed by Christian colonialists. \u201cPrevious Popes have publicly apologised to certain countries because they destroyed, they killed. We had a similar situation, where most of the Buddhist temples were destroyed by them and Buddhist &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=31713\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading &lsquo;Bodu Bala Sena&#8217;s Gnanasara Thero Demands Apology from Pope Francis when visiting Sri Lanka for the &#8220;Crimes&#8221; of the Portugese, Dutch and British&rsquo; &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31713"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31713"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31713\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31722,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31713\/revisions\/31722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}