COLOMBO, Sri Lanka — More than 1,000 Buddhist monks staged a protest in Sri Lanka Sept. 20, asking that anti-conversion legislation be put back on the parliamentary agenda before presidential elections scheduled for Nov. 17. Two anti-conversion bills — one proposed by the Buddhist Jathika Hela Urumaya(JHU, or National Heritage Party) — were presented to Parliament earlier this year but…
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