Lithuanian Bishop's Conference

Roman Catholic churches in Lithuania will suspend public services between December 16 and January 3, but will remain open to private prayer and services, the Lithuanian Bishops' Conference said on Tuesday.

Lithuanian Roman Catholic Church leaders on Tuesday called on the new government coalition not to equate same-sex unions with families.

Pope Francis' thoughts on the need not to reject homosexual people reflect the Holy Father's wish to help people in difficult situations, bishops of the Lithuanian Catholic Church say.

Roman Catholic churches in Lithuania will be able to celebrate Masses with congregations on all days, including Sundays, the Lithuanian Bishop's Conference said.

Roman Catholic churches in Lithuania will be able to celebrate Masses with congregations, except on Sundays, starting next Monday, the Lithuanian Bishop's Conference said on Friday.

Lithuanian Catholic bishops have invited the faithful to celebrate the Easter season by joining in prayers to be broadcast over the Internet, radio and television.

The Lithuanian parliament's ad hoc investigative commission scrutinizing the finances of the Lithuanian Radio and Television (LRT) proposes in its draft findings to change the public broadcaster's management structure.

Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė's decision to put the Council of Europe's Convention on Preventing and Combating Violence Against Women and Domestic Violence (Istanbul Convention) before the country's parliament for ratification was "a nice gesture", Speaker of the Lithuanian Seimas Viktoras...

Lithuanian Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis keeps mum on how he plans to vote during the ratification of the Council of Europe's Convention on Preventing and Combating Violence Against Women and Domestic Violence (Istanbul Convention) in the parliament.

Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė is putting the Council of Europe's Convention on Preventing and Combating Violence Against Women and Domestic Violence (Istanbul Convention) before the country's parliament for ratification, the presidential office confirmed it to BNS Lithuania on Thursday.

The Seimas of Lithuania could ratify the Council of Europe's Convention on Preventing and Combating Violence Against Women and Domestic Violence (Istanbul Convention) but with certain conditions, the Seimas' Speaker Viktoras Pranckietis says.

Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė on Monday appointed Tomas Balžekas, a journalist and the owner of a magazine publishing business, Giedrė Švedienė, a former auditor general, and Norbertas Černiauskas, a historian, as new members of the LRT Council.

The Lithuanian Social Security and Labour Ministry proposes to postpone the ratification of the so-called Istanbul Convention on preventing and combating violence against women until a compromise is reached on the concept of gender, a position that has angered the country's foreign minister.

Lithuania's bishops said that meat is allowed on Feb. 16, the 100-year anniversary of Lithuania's statehood and the Lent Friday, which is traditionally a day of fasting for religious people.

The Lithuanian Defense Ministry has put forward draft amendments that provide for conscripting clergymen to serve as chaplains in the event of mobilization.

Lithuania's government distributed nearly 640,000 euros among the country's traditional religious communities.

Lithuanian Bishops' Conference President Archbishop Sigitas Tamkevičius has called on Lithuania's president, government and members of the Seimas to do everything in their power for violence in Iraq to end.