The Sri Lankan government is to ban the building of places of worship without permission from the Ministry of Buddha Sasana and Religious Affairs.
According to Colombo Page, the government cited clashes between religious groups for this decision, and claimed that the Ministry had received numerous complaints by 'inappropriately' situated places of worship.
The Ministry's chief, who also happens to be Sri Lanka's Prime Minister D. M. Jayaratne, previously instructed officials to relocate a mosque that was ordered to be demolished by the government, arguing that there was no need to create conflict over 'a minor issue'.
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