Muslims

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Lithuania's Tatar community issued a statement on Wednesday, criticizing the decision to build a mosque in the Vilnius area of Liepkalnis. It says it distances from this project.

Lithuania's Muslim community has been trying to build a mosque in Vilnius for over a decade, but it has yet to reach an agreement with the city's authorities. To read this article, try a €5.99 monthly subscription by clicking here.

The Lithuanian Tatar community is the oldest ethnic group living in Lithuania, having settled in the country when it was the Grand Duchy of Lithuania in the 14th century. They have had a profound influence on Lithuania’s history, language and food.

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 ...

Turkey's Directorate of Religious Affairs is to translate the Koran into the Lithuanian language. The Muslim Holy book was first translated to Lithuanian language in 2008 by poet Sigitas Geda.

Latvia is planning to introduce a ban on wearing face-covering clothes in public places, Latvian Justice Minister Dzintars Rasnacs said on Monday.

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).

Islam is not and could not be the reason for terrorist attacks in France, says Lithuanian Muslim Mufti Romas Jakubauskas.

The Lithuanian Tatar community has offered to help the country's government with the integration of refugees to be resettled in Lithuania. Lithuania's Tatars also call on people not to be afraid of Muslims and not to identify them with extremist groups.

There are no plans to build a mosque in Vilnius as Lithuania prepares to take in Muslim refugees, Vilnius Mayor Remigijus Šimašius says.

Globalisation that has showed up at Lithuania's doorstep over these last few days and weeks has caught it utterly unprepared. It is a good thing: a country which still shies away from putting "airport" in English on city buses will have nowhere to hide this time.

Integration of refugees is a more important issue than the question of whether to ban wearing burqas in public or not, says Lithuania's Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius.

The Baltic states, along with other European Union nations, have agreed to take in a portion of refugees that have been fleeing wars in the Middle East. Diminutive though these numbers are, the fact that the refugees come from predominantly Muslim countries seems to inspire some fears among Estonian...

Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov has lashed out at former oil tycoon and vocal critic of the current Russian government Mikhail Khodorkovsky for addressing the media community with a call to publish more cartoons following the terrorist attack in France.

Romas Jakubauskas, a Lithuanian Musilm mufti, says that Wednesday's attack on the satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo office in Paris was perpetuated by individual criminals who must be made accountable by law.

Muslim people will be allow to perform collective Friday rites at Vilnius' Lukiškės Remand Prison.

The European Network Against Racism (ENAR), comprising of more than 170 non-governmental organizations, has turned to the Minister of Interior of the Republic of Lithuania and has asked for an official apology to Lithuanian Muslim community, the Lithuanian Centre for Human Rights (LCHR) informs.