Pope Francis arrives at the Santaka Park in Kaunas
Society

Over 100,000 people gather for papal Holy Mass in Lithuania’s Kaunas

Over 100,000 worshipers have gathered on Sunday morning in Lithuania’s second-largest city of Kaunas for the Holy Mass celebrated by Pope Francis. […]

Kaunas' old town
Culture

Kaunas hosts European Capital of Culture Forum

A two-day European Capital of Culture Forum starts in Lithuania’s second-largest city of Kaunas is on Friday, with over 400 guests and more than 30 speakers expected. […]

Kaunas Town Hall
Society

Kaunas might apply for European Youth Capital

Municipality of Lithuania’s second-largest city Kaunas aims to become the European Youth Capital, with a vote planned in the city council next week on whether it should send in its application. […]

Kaunas Requiem by the International Centre for Litvak Photography
Society

Week of Jewish Commemoration at New Šančiai Synagogue in Kaunas

Kaunas —Saturday marked the opening of a weeklong public program at the New Šančiai Synagogue in Kaunas, Lithuania, commemorating of the seventy-fifth anniversary of the beginning of the Holocaust in Lithuania. Organised by the International Centre for Litvak Photography, or IC4LP, the program is the launch and first instalment of a long-term artistic activity called the Kaunas Requiem, which involves the composition of an experimental music-based artwork that is proposed to run for a duration of seventy-five years. The program also offers the public an opportunity to engage with two of the centre’s ongoing remembrance projects on the theme of the lost Jewish culture of Kaunas and its surrounds, one photographic and one architectural. […]

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Society

Barge with drunk captain sinks in Kaunas, killing 1

On Thursday evening, a barge transporting 11 passengers from Nevėžis to Kaunas sank, killing one passenger. […]