Sri Lanka Catholics mark ‘Black Sunday’ for Easter bomb victims

Cardinal Malcolm Ranjith, Archbishop of Colombo, 2nd left, along with Buddhist monks and other Catholic devotees hold placards during a protest demanding justice for the 2019 Easter Sunday bomb attack victims outside St Anthony’s Church, one of attack sites, in Colombo (Eranga Jayawardena/AP)

Sri Lankan Roman Catholics attended Mass dressed in black on Sunday, with prayers and protests calling for justice for those killed in co-ordinated suicide bomb attacks on Easter Sunday two years ago.

Church bells tolled and prayers were chanted at 8.45am, the time when bombs were detonated almost simultaneously at two Roman Catholic churches and a Protestant church during Easter services on April 21 2019.