The Constitution’s directives that there is no state religion in Lithuania and that no one can be privileged in the state for their religious beliefs have always been at risk. This risk has lately increased, […]
Pope Francis has landed in Lithuania on Saturday at the start of his four-day Baltic tour during which he will show respect to the three nations’ independence and pay homage to the victims of the Nazi and Soviet regimes. […]
Lithuanian institutions and the Catholic Church have started coordinating financial issues related to the upcoming visit of Pope Francis, with funds to be spent on stages, protection, decorations. […]
An advertising campaign introducing the Lithuanian capital of Vilnius as “the G-Spot of Europe” does not cross the morality line but the timing of its launch should have better considered, Lithuanian Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis says. […]
Eighty non-governmental organizations and almost 30 academicians have asked Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė to veto the recently-passed Law on the Strengthening of the Family. […]
The Lithuanian Genocide and Resistance Research Center (LGGRTC) is starting publishing agency reports by agents of the Soviet special service KGB. […]
Lithuania’s Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis and Pope Francis on Friday discussed emigration challenges, humanitarian assistance to Ukraine, social compassion to the impoverished and affected, assistance to families and birth rate promotion issues, the government said. […]
Lithuania’s Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis is scheduled to meet with Pope Francis in the Vatican on Friday. […]
The Assumption of the Virgin Mary into Heaven is marked by Catholics in Lithuania on the 15th of August when the first harvest of fruit and berries is sanctified. […]
Clergymen of the Roman Catholic Church of Lithuania have expressed indignation of the Tuesday’s ruling by the Constitutional Court, which said that the clergy of traditional religious communities had been dismissed from military or alternative defense service without due grounds. […]
Lithuania’s Catholic Church will for the first time ordain married men as deacons, Kauno Diena daily said. […]
The sparks flying due to the Artificial Insemination Law should not impact the ratings of the Lithuanian Peasant and Greens Union (LPGU) and a part of society may overall find the topic hard to understand note experts. […]
The state and the Church are separate in Lithuania, but is the latter separate from Seimas? This parliament, it appears will present a number of laws based on Church doctrine. This will most likely receive […]
When I go abroad I like to have a chat with taxi drivers – they help better understand the moods of the public. A young taxi driver I met in Warsaw in May this year cursed “I’m emigrating in a month to Norway with my family and won’t return until Jaroslaw Kaczynski is behind bars.” This is how he evaluated the work of the Poland‘s majority government leader. I was reminded of this story when some “Facebook friends,” who are Conservative/Liberal voters from Vilnius spoke of emigration if Ramūnas Karbauskis’ “Peasant Greens” enter government. Karbauskis himself states that the fight with emigration will be his greatest priority Vaidas Beniušis writes in BNS. […]
Panevėžys’ Bishop Emeritus Jonas Kauneckas has accused the Homeland Union – Lithuanian Christian Democrat (TS-LKD) leader Gabrielius Landsbergis of hypocrisy. According to the bishop, the latest statements by the chairman do not reflect the moral […]
Lithuania’s Catholic Church on Friday urged the community to vote for the politicians who support Christian views of families. […]
Several dozen people, rallied by non-governmental organizations, held a protest action outside the Ministry of Education and Science. They are critical of the new sexual education programme that the ministry is to approve on Wednesday, saying it is too conservative and fails to meet the needs of school students.
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Around 1,500 young people from across Lithuania are heading to Krakow for World Youth Day 2016 celebrations, which will culminate in a meeting with Pope Francis.
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Cardinal Pietro Parolin, Vatican‘s Secretary of State, is meeting with Lithuania‘s President Dalia Grybauskaitė and Seimas Speaker Loreta Graužinienė on Monday. […]
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