A necessary HISTORICAL background

With well over 90 per cent of the Sri Lankan population non-Catholic, the election of a new Pope now underway should not be of much concern to us. But past Popes, especially those of the 15th and 16th centuries had pushed ideologically for the devastation under the Portuguese of almost all our centres of learning in the 16th and early 17th centuries. The new Pope is being elected when increasingly Western countries from which Catholicism was transmitted elsewhere, are losing members. It is in the former colonised world where conversion was mostly under the sword and coercion that the future of Catholicism now lives.

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LIFE IN LONDON - Part 19:

Beware of immigration racketeers!

Quite often when someone comes to know that I had lived in the UK, the obvious interest that pops up is to find out about the possibilities finding some kind of employment in Britain. No matter to what extent one tries to explain the realities behind immigration control, and how difficult it is to do so in the present climate, the penny does not seem to drop almost in all the cases; Instead there is always the likelihood of being misunderstood by the enquirer.

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