I have been travelling to Sri Lanka for a number of years. The country is truly wonderful and the people are very friendly. Unfortunatly, a civil war has been going on for nearly three decades causing the death of tens of thousands of people.
Religious tension is becoming more evident. Perhaps Christians are sometimes a little insensitive to people's feelings when they talk about their faith, but the violence that occurs is in no way justified.
Assertions that people are being converted by unethical means, that is by being given money is ludicrous. The Christians we know are extremly poor and can hardly make ends meet. They cannot possibly offer people financial gain if they convert.
Here's a documentary that features our friends and is quite balanced in its approach.
Protestant Christians, among which are a number of nominal Christians, are less than 1% of the population. Fear that the country could be taken over by Christian fundamentalists are gravely exaggerated!
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