In the island of Sri Lanka, the ratio of the population consists of
74% Sinhalese , 18% Tamil, 7% Moor , and 1% Burgher, Malay, and
Vedda.The religious ratio is, 69% Buddhist, 15% Hindu, 8% Muslim, 8%
Christian.1 Out of this 8%, approximately one tenth consists of Protestants
and the majority of them are Tamils, residing in the North, East, West and
the hill country. From these statistics we would expect that comparatively
the percentage of Sinhalese Christians ought to be high. However, this is
not the case and Sinhalese Christianity declined more than the Tamil
Christianity. This article seeks to analyze the events that contributed to the
decline to come to a conclusion as to why the Tamil Community was more
receptive to the gospel than the Sinhalese community.