Sri Lankan pastor released; not tortured

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STRASBOURG, France—Huthin Manohar, the Sri Lankan pastor arrested and imprisoned on March 13, was released on April 28 after 48 days of detention in Colombo, the country’s capital.

He has returned to his home in Mannar in the Jaffna peninsula in the north where he is pastor of Gospel Grace Church.

On May 2, Manohar reported from Mannar that he had been interrogated about his relationship with another pastor whose automobile he had hired three times in the last year to transport people to the Bauldaes Theological College board meeting and baptisms. That pastor, whose activities broke trust with the church, was arrested for transporting weapons and other equipment to the south two weeks before Manohar’s arrest. Manohar said he was not tortured as he expected, but that he was confined in a cell with four other men.

Manohar came to the United States in 1990 to receive religious training; he attended West Philadelphia Mennonite Fellowship where he was a pastoral intern.—Mennonite World Conference

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