On January 14, Pope Francis will go to Madhu. Madhu is Sri Lanka’s holiest Catholic shrine, home to Our Lady of Madhu, a statue of the Virgin Mary that was brought for safekeeping from the Dutch in ...

A moment of prayer and a peaceful march were held in Colombo yesterday, to ask the Tamil rebels to leave the area of the Marian shrine, and the army to stop its military operations. A new message from ...

In a press release sent to government and Tamil Tigers, the Catholic Church of Sri Lanka calls for an end to military operations around the sacred site. It wants the Marian shrine, a pilgrimage ...

Mannar (Agenzia Fides) - The Sri Lankan Church has been concerned for the gunshots and violent threats that have arisen in recent weeks around the area surrounding the Shrine to Our Lady of Madhu. In ...

Mary Nirmala, a Sunday school teacher from Negombo, visited the Shrine of Our Lady of Madhu with her parents every year in her childhood. Now she follows the tradition by visiting the shrine with her ...

Sri Lankan government forces are closing in on Madhu area in Mannar district and it is said that this capture will be very beneficial for the morale of the troops and the government. In the event of ...

Maria Goretti worried about not being able to camp at the annual festival at the Shrine of Our Lady of Madhu this year due to the Covid-19 outbreak. The 68-year-old Catholic visits the shrine with her ...