President calls on Archbishop

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Says there is no room for these kind of brutal activities in the country in future

President Maithripala Sirisena yesterday visited the Archbishop’s House and called on the Archbishop of Colombo Malcolm Cardinal Ranjith.

President Sirisena expressed his shock, deep pain and dismay over the brutal attacks on places of Catholic religious worship and discussed over the future steps that should be taken regarding this incident.

During this meeting, the President, expressing his views, said that at present the Government has taken every possible step to prevent recurrence of these kind of incidents in the country in the future. President Sirisena further said that he has given instructions to the security forces to provide security at any time it is needed to all religious leaders including the Archbishop as well as for shrines.