Sri Lanka blasts: Colombo churches cancel Sunday mass for 2nd straight week

Colombo's Archbishop, Cardinal Malcolm Ranjith, said on Thursday that a 'highly reliable foreign source' had warned of an attack on a prominent church

Sri Lanka’s Catholic churches have cancelled Sunday mass in the capital Colombo for a second straight week, citing foreign intelligence warnings of threats to worshippers in the wake of the deadly Easter bombings on churches and hotels.

Sri Lankan security forces have said they were maintaining a high level of alert as intelligence reports indicated the militants were likely to strike before the beginning of the Islamic holy month of Ramadan, which is due to begin on Monday.

And the US ambassador to Sri Lanka said this week that some of the Islamist militants behind the Easter bombings that killed over 250