The Archbishop of Canterbury said all religions and their leaders must own up to extremist activities within their faith and examine which of their traditional teachings enable extremists to commit evil.
Rev. Justin Welby, the figurehead of the worldwide Anglican Church, told interfaith leaders in Sri Lanka that accepting responsibility is key rather than disavowing an evildoer as not a good enough follower of a religion.
Welby arrived in Sri Lanka on Thursday and first visited St. Sebastian's Church near the town of Negombo and paid homage to those killed in the Easter suicide
bomb attacks blamed on Muslim extremists.