The Sri Lankan bishops have declared 2017 to be the year of St. Joseph Vaz, Sri Lanka's first and only saint. As part of the celebrations, Archbishop of Colombo Cardinal Malcolm Ranjith said that the ...

Ayoma Mary Fernando recently prayed in front of the relic a wooden cross said to have been planted in Sri Lankan soil in the 17th century by the missionary priest St. Joseph Vaz. The relic was on ...

Vaz was a 17th century Indian missionary who revived the faith in Sri Lanka during a time of anti-Catholic persecution by Dutch colonists, who were Protestant Calvinists The pontiff seemed to be well ...

The 375th birth anniversary of St Joseph Vaz, the ‘Patron of Goa’ and ‘Apostle of Sri Lanka’, was celebrated with deep ...

The 315th annual feast of St. Joseph Vaz, the “Apostle of Sri Lanka,” was celebrated with deep devotion at the historic Shrine dedicated to him in Kandy. The feast commemorates the extraordinary life ...

Pope Francis is in the second day of a weeklong visit to Sri Lanka and the Philippines. Here are some glimpses of his trip as it unfolds: Pope Francis canonized the Indian-born Joseph Vaz as Sri Lanka ...

Catholic tradition says Joseph Vaz miraculously brought rain to the independent kingdom of Kandy, in central and eastern Sri Lanka, during a major drought Politics 17.12.2018 ...

Things didn’t exactly go to plan when Joseph Vaz, who is expected to become Sri Lanka’s first saint on Wednesday, arrived in the island nation to propagate Catholicism in the 17th century. A year ...

In January, as Sri Lanka continued to draw Indian pilgrims tracing the Ramayana trail, another group crossed the Palk Strait on a different spiritual journey. A delegation of 125 Goan Catholics ...