The Buddhist Vesak festival celebrations in Sri Lanka have evolved into an interreligious affair, with more Hindus and Christians participating in the festivities, observers say. Christians and Hindus ...

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka — It was time to reclaim the holiday. To put the Buddha back into Vesak, so to speak. But as Sri Lankans prepared to celebrate Vesak, the holiday this week commemorating Buddha’s ...

Sri Lankan Catholics took to community service and almsgiving for the festival of Vesak in a show of religious harmony and reconciliation amid stiff economic challenges facing the Indian Ocean island ...

Sri Lanka, May 16 -- The International Day of Vesak 2025 was celebrated by the Member States of UNESCO with a Symposium themed "Buddhist Cosmopolitanism and Exchange along the Silk Road: Interplay ...