The Sri Lanka Christian Academics Network (SLCAN) was launched on 15th October 2020. SLCAN hopes to unite all Christian academics in state and non state universities and provide a platform to reflect on and discern God’s mission and its implications for Academia.
Continue Reading October 15th, 2020
As our country preparing for a Presidential Election, we as a Christian community have a responsibility to pray for this Election.
Continue Reading October 14th, 2019
Use this link for online registrations
https://forms.gle/cnHSLYgNVMCMnxxM9
October 14th, 2019
A camp for the Sinhala speaking students was held on 13th – 15th September at Tulana Research Center, Kelaniya.
Continue Reading September 18th, 2019
There was a memorial event organized by the Good Shepherd Youth Society of South Eastern University, to remember the lives lost on the 21st Easter Sunday
Continue Reading August 16th, 2019
After a month of the easter attack, the Fellowship of Christian University Students (FOCUS) and the All University Muslim Student Association (AUMSA) have signed the following Declaration and Pledge to each other.
August 1st, 2019
On 21 April 2019, Easter Sunday, three churches in Sri Lanka and three luxury hotels in the commercial capital Colombo were targeted in a series of coordinated terrorist suicide bombings. We lost 2 of our FOCUS students in this attack, K.Umahangary, and P.Prasteen who worshiped in Batticaloa Zion church. Prasteen studied in Agriculture faculty of Jaffna in Kilinochchi and finished his studies in January 2019. Umashangary studied in Eastern University in the arts faculty in 1st year.
                P.Prasteen
K.Umashangary
Add comment July 31st, 2019
Many of us live our Christian faith in a separate category to our study and work lives. This schizophrenic lifestyle causes lots of issues as we meet with the ethical and moral challenges we face in our day to day lives.
But does God call us to live in this way? Is our study and work life divorced from our Christian faith? Is there a way that we can reflect about our work theologically? FOCUS seeks to answer some of these questions through the Faith&Work Conference series.
The conferences brings together Christian undergraduate students, university academics and practitioners in a particular industry and seeks to help bridge the interaction between our faith and our work. Once the theological foundations to work in that field are established the conference will feature a particular issue within the field and ask whether the revealed Christian faith helps us to think through that issue in a more wholistic manner consistent with the mission of God. Resource persons who are able to reflect both theologically as well as within the discipline have been invited to guide the participants in this task.
The first of these conferences will bring together Christians in the Engineering 
and IT sectors and will be held on 13th August. The sessions are as follows
1. Is Technology Morally Neutral? – Prof. Priyan Dias
2. The Challenge of Harnessing Engineering for Development – Prof. Amal Kumarage
3. Re-thinking Technological Progress – Ms. Ramona Miranda and Dr. Ruvan Weerasinghe
The second conference this year will be for Christians working in the Legal field and will be held on 3rd September.
1. The Challenge to Integrity – Mr. Prabo Mihindukulasuriya
2. Legal Education and Training – Dr. Dinesha Samararatne
3. Ethical Challenges in Legal Practice – Interactive Workshop
4. Re-thinking Incarceration – Hon. M.A. Sumanthiran
Both of these conferences will be held in Committee Room ‘C’ of the BMICH.
These conferences are part sponsored by Open Doors. Those who wish to contribute to help us cover the additional expenses can do so by sending an email to Yohan.
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