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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 sch...
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. To read this article, try a €5.99 monthly subscription by clicking here.
Cardinal Pietro Parolin, Vatican's Secretary of State, is meeting with Lithuania's President Dalia Grybauskaitė and Seimas Speaker Loreta Graužinienė on Monday.
There were some 13 million Muslims living in Europe several years ago, according to Pew Research Center, and several more million have come from Syria and Iraq over the last few years. Professor Egdūnas Račius of the Kaunas-based Vytautas Magnus University says that religion is not always the right ...
Lithuania‘s St. Peter and Paul‘s Church in Vilnius has topped the Catholicsay.com list of the 16 most beautiful churches in the world.
Diverging views on poetry has become an issue of a heated debate on history and censorship after Lithuania's minister of defence denied a state award to an author whose analysis of the Soviet past did not match the minister's own opinion. At the centre of the controversy is the poet Justinas Marcink...
Pope Francis welcomed pilgrims from countries around the world at a general audience yesterday, among them were a group of 15 people from Lithuania - and many of them were greeted with a personal handshake.
Although surveys show that less than 2% of Lithuanians are atheists, they know more about religion than the rest of the population, Lithuania researcher Rasa Bendaravičienė told LRT Radio.
Many immigrants to Lithuania are happy with their lives here and are not planning to move back to their homelands. A number of immigrants shared their stories on LRT programme Ryto garsai (morning sounds).
President Dalia Grybauskaitė is going to Vatican to visit Pope Francis on Wednesday.
On 28-29 October, Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė will visit Italy and Vatican, where she will have an audience with Pope Francis.
One of the three kids that Pope Francis agreed to pose for pictures with during his historic visit in Washington, D.C., is 16-year-old American-Lithuanian Enija Davidonytė.
President Dalia Grybauskaitė on Thursday will visit homes in St. Peter and St. Paul parish and together with Vilnius Archbishop Gintaras Grušas will meet with families from Iraq living there.
The Catholic Church of Lithuania plans to accept more Iraqi Christians who are being persecuted in their homeland, Vilnius Metropolitan Archbishop Gintaras Grušas, head of the Lithuanian Archbishops' Conference, says.
President Dalia Grybauskaitė, who is in Italy on a working visit, has opened an exhibition entitled Historical Ties between Milan and Lithuania: Bona Sforza and the Palace of the Grand Dukes of Lithuania in Milan's Sforza Castle, the presidential press service said.
Lithuanian Foreign Minister Linas Linkevičius says that Lithuania is not seeking particular quotas or figures as regards the migrant issue, however, it wants the criteria according to which refugees are distributed among the member-states to be transparent and correspondent to the country's actual p...
Christians are forced to flee Iraq fearing for their lives, Klara Lazar Banyameen Shamoon said in Vilnius. She has recently arrived in Lithuania together with 14 other Iraqi Christian refugees.
Three Iraqi families arrived in Vilnius on Friday. The Catholic Church of Lithuania will take care of their accommodation and integration.
The Catholic Church of Lithuania plans to receive and accommodate 19 Iraqis in Vilnius.
Lithuania has recently started discussing its attitudes towards homosexuality, in what remains a novelty for a country ranked among the most homophobic in the EU.
