{"id":50179,"date":"2016-12-07T01:02:20","date_gmt":"2016-12-07T06:02:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=50179"},"modified":"2016-12-07T01:07:05","modified_gmt":"2016-12-07T06:07:05","slug":"catholic-cardinal-malcolm-ranjith-wants-project-to-build-worlds-tallest-christmas-tree-at-galle-face-to-be-stopped","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=50179","title":{"rendered":"Catholic Cardinal Malcolm Ranjith Wants Project to Build World&#8217;s tallest Christmas Tree at Galle Face to be Stopped."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Norman Palihawadana<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Archbishop of Colombo Malcolm Cardinal Ranjith yesterday frowned on a colossal sum of money being spent on the erection of a Christmas tree at the Galle Face Green. <\/p>\n<p>He said it was a vain attempt and the money spent thereon could have been utilised to help the poverty stricken people.<\/p>\n<p>Addressing a press conference at the Bishops House, the Bishop said the Catholic Church was against spending large amounts of money on a Christmas tree.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>The Cardinal said that he was not sure of the Ministry engaged in the project but the project should be abandoned forthwith,<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Christmas should be an occasion for people to share joy with the needy. It was not an occasion for merry making and extravagance.<\/p>\n<p>Bishops of Galle Raymond Wickramasinghe, Bishop Emmanuel Fernando, Fathers Lal Pushpadeva and Jude Samantha addressed the media.<\/p>\n<p>Minister of Ports and Shipping Arjuna Ranatunga has embarked on building the world\u2019s tallest Christmas tree at Galle Face utilising the resources of the Sri Lanka Ports Authority.<\/p>\n<p><em>Courtesy:The Island<\/em><\/p>\n<div id=\"tweetbutton50179\" class=\"tw_button\" style=\"float:right;margin-left:10px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdbsjeyaraj.com%2Fdbsj%2F%3Fp%3D50179&amp;text=Catholic%20Cardinal%20Malcolm%20Ranjith%20Wants%20Project%20to%20Build%20World%26%238217%3Bs%20tallest%20Christmas%20Tree%20at%20Galle%20Face%20to...%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>By Norman Palihawadana Archbishop of Colombo Malcolm Cardinal Ranjith yesterday frowned on a colossal sum of money being spent on the erection of a Christmas tree at the Galle Face Green. He said it was a vain attempt and the money spent thereon could have been utilised to help the poverty stricken people. Addressing a &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=50179\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading &lsquo;Catholic Cardinal Malcolm Ranjith Wants Project to Build World&#8217;s tallest Christmas Tree at Galle Face to be Stopped.&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\/50179"}],"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=50179"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50179\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50181,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50179\/revisions\/50181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}