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Sri Lanka

Sri Lanka is an Island which is situated in the southern tip of the India.

AREA	65,606 sq. km
CAPITAL	Sri Jayewardenepura Kotte
COMMERCIAL CAPITAL	Colombo

POPULATION(1996)

18.1 million

ETHNIC GROUPS

Sinhalese 73.96%, Sri Lankan Tamils 12.71%, Indian Tamils 5.52% Sri Lanka Moors 7.07% Others 0.76%

RELIGOUS GROUPS

Buddists 69.30%, Hindus 15.48%, Muslims 7.61%, Christians 7.55%, Others 0.06%

Curisillo Community in Sri Lanka

The Cursillo Movement has been introduced in Asia in 1963. It was the United States which brought the CM to the Philippines, Sri Lanka and Japan. Rev Father Theophane Wickramaratne is the former of this movement in sri lanka.

From the 7.55% of Christian community it is only (---%) represent the Roman Catholics. There are 9 Dioces through out the country and 173 Cursillos has been conducted and about 2672 cursilistars is present.

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Flag description:

yellow with two panels; the smaller hoist-side panel has two equal vertical bands of green (hoist side) and orange; the other panel is a large dark red rectangle with a yellow lion holding a sword, and there is a yellow bo leaf in each corner; the yellow field appears as a border that goes around the entire flag and extends between the two panels

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