Support for this podcast comes from a TV show that you can watch on the internet. It's called Rami.

It's a Hulu original series that's streaming now based on the real-life experiences of comedian named Rami.

Yousef. It's all about being a first-generation Muslim American cop between an Egyptian community that thinks life is a moral test and a millennial generation

that thinks life has no consequences. All episodes of Rami are now streaming only on Hulu.

My entire life people have been asking me how I ended up with a name like Sean Ramisferam.

Like, why is your first name normal and why is your last name all unwieldy like?

I guess the simple answer is opposite to Tract. My parents are from the tropical island of Sri Lanka, formerly Salon.

You've got just over 20 million people, the vast majority around 15 million of them belong to the singhalese ethnic group and they're mostly Buddhist.

The next biggest ethnic group is the couple million minority tamels and they're mostly Hindu.

But some tamels are Muslim and some singhalese are Catholic. You could be a singhalese, Tamil, evangelical Christian.

For a homogenous-looking place Sri Lanka can be remarkably diverse and that's how you end up with a name like Sean Ramisferam.

My mom is a singhalese Catholic and my dad is a Tamil Hindu.

My dad wanted to give his son's Hindu names and he won the argument with my brother Namesh.

My mom wanted to give her son's Christian names and she won with me.

Sri Lanka is this kind of unlikely crossroads of religious histories. It can be transcendent but it can also be tragic.

And yesterday on Easter Sunday it was tragic.

An Easter morning that will never be forgotten. Worshipers at mass, the victims of mass merger.

Eight bomb attacks targeting Christians and tourists in Sri Lanka and a ninth bomb targeting police.

Hotel restaurants blown to pieces. More than 200 people killed 100 turn. Several Americans among the victims.

Yesterday's attack was coordinated and of unprecedented cruelty. It left landmark churches in ruins and killed or named spores of Roman Catholics.

I would like to call upon all to pray that all those who are injured may be healed soon and that all these families who are lost someone may be consoled.

I condemn with my to the utmost of my capacity this act that has caused so much of death and suffering to the people.

...