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It is with dismay that we the Church Leaders of The National Christian Council of Sri Lanka (NCCSL) learnt of the presidential pardon given to former Army Sergeant Sunil Ratnayake who was sentenced in 2015 for the murder of eight Tamil civilians including a five- year- old child in Year 2000.The facts of the case […]

We, the Heads of Churches under the National Christian Council of Sri Lanka (NCCSL) hereby appeal to His Excellency Gotabhaya Rajapakse to revoke the order dissolving parliament, thereby facilitating the postponement of the parliamentary election until September or October 2020, and to reconvene the existing parliament, thus averting a Constitutional crisis we can ill afford

It is with a sense of sorrow and joy in Christ, The National Christian Council of Sri Lanka (NCCSL) receives the news of the ‘Calling to Glory’ of Rev. Fr. Earnest Poruthota.Rev. Fr. Raymond Earnest Alexandra Poruthota, as a magnanimous disciple of Christ engaged in spreading the love of God in an encouraging and guiding

The National Christian Council of Sri Lanka (NCCSL) expresses its deep concern about the manner in which the 20th Amendment to the Constitution is sought to be introduced and several substantive provisions of the amendment itself. THE PROCESS The Government has decided to table the 20th Amendment Bill while also announcing that changes will be

We meet at a critical juncture of human calamity of the pandemic – COVID 19; the global effects there-to and the raising of its head yet again in our own land. It is in the midst of this national crisis and the increasing spread of this killer virus with the devastating impact on the country

The National Christian Council of Sri Lanka (NCCSL) takes note of the ‘Call to Prayer’ by the Roman Catholic Bishop’s Council for North and East, scheduled for Tuesday 18 May 2021 in Remembrance of the War Victims. Acknowledging the ‘sanctity of life’, we call upon our membership to offer prayers for all lives lost in

The worsening COVID-19 pandemic situation and related deterioration of socio- economic conditions, along with mounting ecological calamities, has prompted the Churches affiliated with the National Christian Council of Sri Lanka (NCCSL) to alert the nation and its political leadership to the need to meet the challenge for proper governance and economic and environmental management to

The National Christian Council of Sri Lanka received the information about the ‘calling to glory’ of Rev Vernon Perera with profound shock and sadness. We join the family in mourning as we remember our brother with warmth, love and respect. Kindly accept our heartfelt condolences. The National Christian Council of Sri Lanka remembers Rev Vernon

Amid a further deterioration of the COVID-19 pandemic situation, the Churches affiliated with the National Christian Council of Sri Lanka (NCCSL) wish to alert the nation and its political leadership to the burning needs of particularly severely affected social groups as well as certain national challenges that need urgent addressing. After more than one and