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Added on the 01/05/2023 16:15:44 - Copyright : AFPTV - First images
Colombo, Sep 1 (EFE/EPA).- Sri Lankan Buddhist devotees took part Tuesday in religious observance at a temple on full moon day in the suburbs of Colombo. Buddhists constitute the majority of the country's population and take part, as per customs, in religious observances on full moon days. (Camera: CHAMILA KARUNARATHNE)FOOTAGE SHOWS BUDDHIST RELIGIOUS OBSERVANCES ON FULL MOON SAY IN KELANIYA SUBURB OF COLOMBO, SRI LANKA.
Colombo, Aug 29 (EFE/EPA).- Sri Lanka held Saturday at Colombo's historic Kotte Buddhist Temple the annual Buddhist procession, a ceremony believed to have started in 1415 and held in honor of the sacred relic of the Buddha's tooth, once guarded by the kingdom of Kotte. (Camera: CHAMILA KARUNARATHNE).SHOT LIST: A BUDDHIST PROCESSION AT THE HISTOIC KOTTE BUDDHIST TEMPLE IN COLOMBO, SRI LANKA.
Images show the motorcade of Sri Lanka's deposed former president Gotabaya Rajapaksa at the airport in Colombo, as he returns to the country seven weeks after he fled amid the island's worst-ever economic crisis. IMAGES
Dozens of Sri Lankans gather outside the president's office in Colombo on Thursday morning as representatives of the anti-government demonstration said they were in talks to hand back official buildings they seized, even as they insisted the president and prime minister both quit in the face of an economic crisis. IMAGES
Thousands of demonstrators take to the streets of Colombo, Sri Lanka's capital, to protest against the way the governement is handling the country's worst economic crisis since its independence in 1948. IMAGES