Pope Francis met with Lithuanian bishops on Monday and thanked them for their “heroic” defence of the Church during the Soviet times. He also warned about “other dangers such as secularism and relativism”, the Vatican Radio reports. […]
Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė on Monday met with leaders of traditional Christian communities in Lithuania and discussed common work in seeking unity in the country and the world. […]
Archbishop of Vilnius Gintaras Grušas has voiced his concern about possible Russian aggression against Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia, and appealed to Western Catholics to be better informed about the situation, Catholic News Service reports. […]
I heard the Lithuanian term for “prisoner of conscience” for the first time as a student at a Lithuanian high school in then West Germany. Around the same time, in 1984, I learned about the story of Father Alfonsas Svarinskas, then serving a prison term in Perm Oblast, deep inside Russia. […]
Prominent Lithuanian clergyman, former dissident and political figure Monsignor Alfonsas Svarinskas passed away last week, aged 89. One of the most active Lithuanian dissidents hated Soviet occupants with all his heart and soul. As a result, Svarinskas spent 22 years in labour camps of Siberia. […]
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