Pope Francis Meets MR And Gotabhaya
Posted by ONLANKA Newsroom on January 15, 2015 - 9:20 am
Pope Francis met former President Mahinda Rajapaksa, former First Lady Shiranthi Rajapaksa and former Defence Secretary Gotabhaya Rajapaksa at Vatican Embassy.
Pope Francis was first invited to visit Sri Lanka by former President Mahinda Rajapaksa. Although he was invited to welcome the Pope at Bandaranaike International Airport on Tuesday by the new government, the former President was not present at the event.
Gotabhaya Rajapaksa, who met Pope Francis in Vatican last year, was instrumental in facilitating the Papal visit. The former Defence Secretary’s wife, Ayoma Rajapaksa too was present at the meeting.
(Asian Mirror)
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Yes former president Mahinda Rajapakse respect all the religions.
Yes, Shiranthi (Ayoma??) Rajapakse is a devoted Catholic and as the former 1st Lady she has all the rights to meet the Pope. Why not?
…..which effected to weak wited sinhalese…
we all must thank him for this opptunity given for the country