The Sri Lanka Catholic Church will televise its private Sunday mass over a lingering fear over a repeat of terrorists acts as threats continue.
Church attacks resulting in deaths on Easter Sunday still remains a living nightmare for Sri Lanka’s Christians.
Police, meanwhile, said they were stepping up search operations over the weekend ahead of a planned re-opening of over 10,000 public schools after an extended Easter vacation. Police and troops across the country had recovered small quantities of explosives, guns, swords, daggers and kris knives, Gunasekera said.Despite the tight security, Catholic churches will remain shut on Sunday, a spokesman said, adding that a private mass will be telecast live from the residence of the Archbishop.
“The information we have from a reliable foreign source is that attackers are planning to hit a very famous church and a Catholic institution,” the Cardinal said in a statement.Official sources said the Thewatte National Basilica, just outside Colombo, was the suspected target, and the military deployed hundreds of troops to search the area.
Sri Lankan authorities had advance warnings from Indian intelligence of the impending Easter attacks, but police and security forces failed to act.
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