An external fact checker has checked with Rev. Cyril Gamini and confirmed that he did not make such a statement. Read more here: https://srilanka.factcrescendo.com/2021/10/30/father-syril-gamini-didnt-say-that-he-apologizes-from-god-about-not-supporting-to-anura-kumara-at-elections/. The original post has been edited recently and the photo with Rev. Cyril Gamini's supposed statement has now been replaced with a supposed statement by His Eminence Malcolm Cardinal Ranjith, the Archbishop of Colombo, which says that fourteen hundred thousand of Catholics have decided to vote for Anura Kumara Dissanayaka in an upcoming election. This strategy of replacing the original post with another image to circumvent the disclaimer by Facebook on false or misleading posts has been observed before as well.