Distressed Pakistani asylum seekers rough it out in #Sri_Lanka
COLOMBO:
A Sunday mass is under way at a small chapel in the western Sri Lankan city of #Negombo. The building is decked out in multicoloured bunting for Christmas. Interestingly, the worshippers are singing hymns and psalms, not in Sinhalese, not in Tamil, not in any other dialect of the island nation, but in Urdu.
Four Catholic bishops visiting from Pakistan are leading the mass for the families of the Christian asylum-seekers from Punjab and Sindh. These families have been in limbo since they landed in Sri Lanka years ago.
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