{"id":15402,"date":"2021-09-08T19:59:56","date_gmt":"2021-09-08T14:29:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/?p=15402"},"modified":"2021-09-08T19:59:57","modified_gmt":"2021-09-08T14:29:57","slug":"governments-move-to-go-international-is-a-childish-act-cardinal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/?p=15402","title":{"rendered":"Government&#8217;s move to go international is a childish act \u2013 Cardinal"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;It is foolish for the Prime Minister and the Foreign Minister to go to the international arena and try to hide behind it. Therefore, please do not do such degrading work,&#8221; said the Cardinal.<br \/>Cardinal Malcolm Ranjith stated this at a media briefing held today (8th) regarding Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa and the Minister of External Affairs preparing to visit Italy and brief the Pope on the Easter attack.<br \/>Speaking further, the Cardinal said, &#8220;When the President came to power, he shouted on the stage that one country and one law. Now we see one country. But now they have one rule, and we have another rule. We held constant protests demanding justice for us. People cannot be saved from this based on race, religion or language, or they are part of the government. &#8220;People with backbones do not go to the international arena to protect themselves and try to hide from the international community. This is not what is expected of honest political leaders.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-video\"><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-video\"><\/figure>\n<div class='saic-wrapper saic-default saic-comments-closed saic-border' style='overflow: hidden;'><div class='saic-wrap-link'><a id='saic-link-15402' class='saic-link saic-icon-link saic-icon-link-true auto-load-true' href='?post_id=15402&amp;comments=1&amp;get=30&amp;order=DESC' title='1 Comment'><i class='saico-comment'><\/i><span>1<\/span> Comment<\/a><\/div><!--.saic-wrap-link--><div id='saic-wrap-commnent-15402' class='saic-wrap-comments' style='display:none;'><div id='saic-wrap-form-15402' class='saic-wrap-form saic-clearfix'><div class='saic-form-avatar'><\/div><div id='saic-container-form-15402' class='saic-container-form saic-no-login'><p>Comments are closed<\/p><\/div><!--.saic-container-form--><\/div><!--.saic-wrap-form--><div id='saic-comment-status-15402'  class='saic-comment-status'><\/div><ul id='saic-container-comment-15402' class='saic-container-comments saic-order-DESC ' data-order='DESC'><\/ul><div class='saic-holder-15402 saic-holder'><\/div><\/div><!--.saic-wrap-comments--><\/div><!--.saic-wrapper-->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;It is foolish for the Prime Minister and the Foreign Minister to go to the international arena and try to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":12732,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[97,107,108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-smartphones","category-political","category-religion","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15402","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15402"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15402\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}