RELIGIOUS AND CULTURAL ACTIVITIES

RELIGIOUS AND CULTURAL AFFAIRS INTRODUCTION

As per the direction of Commander, Security Forces Headquarters, KILINOCHCHI troops conducts religious and cultural activities to uplift the relation between people from different religious and cultural backgrounds who lived in SFHQ(Kln) AOR. Activities which are done by troops listed as link in below in detail.

INTRODUCTION

1. Sri Lanka is a country of religious tolerance. Though the main religion is Buddhism, all other religions are treated at the similar respect as of Buddhism. Every citizen of the country can enjoy their freedom of faith. The long history in to the mixture of religious beliefs developed into a stage where no single person can particularly point out which tradition belongs to which culture.

2. Accordingly, each province has its own dominant culture based on majority of the ethnicity. KILINOCHCHI in this regard becomes vital since the liberation from the iron fists of the ruthless terrorists and at present enjoys cultural and religious rights of their own.

3. Sri Lanka Army playing a vital role in this regard and always found a foot step ahead of others in supporting the local population in all religious activities ranging from Hinduism to Buddhism including Islamic, Christianity. One major factor of many other which is needs to be bridged in order to minimize the gap between the local population and the Army.

OBJECTIVES

4. To improve knowledge of other religions among communities along with the security force personnel.

5. To improve the knowledge on different cultural affairs among the local communities.

6. To build up good friendship and understanding between different local communities by creating the required environment to celebrate every religious and cultural festivals of the local community.

7.To bridge the gap between local population and the security forces.

8. As a means to reach local population.

IMPORTANT RELIGIOUS DAYS OF THE SRI LANKAN CALENDAR 2019

POPULATION BY RELIGION WISE- KILINOCHCHI DISTRICT

CONCLUSION

9. The community needs to bring together to achieve main laid down objectives. In order to achieve the objectives religious harmony and paving a path to understand each other’s values related to the sensitivities of cultural and religious beliefs. Understanding and respecting each other’s values would minimize the possibility of impairing the achieved peace in the country. Observance of the all religious and cultural events is the first option to achieve above. The activities which were already conducted by the Security Force Head Quarters were positively absorbed by the local community in the KILINOCHCHI area.