Pope Francis

Lithuania's Parliamentary Speaker Viktoras Pranckietis is meeting with Diana Varnaitė, director of the Cultural Heritage Department, on Wednesday to discuss preparations for the pope's visit.

President Dalia Grybauskaitė has sent the world's smallest nativity scene to Pope Francis as a unique Christmas gift created by Lithuanian scientists and students.

Vilnius Archbishop Gintaras Grušas says that Pope Francis, who plans to visit Lithuania next year, would give strength to people and help them find a way out of difficult situations.

Pope Francis is likely to focus not only on religious issues, but also on social exclusion and emigration problems during his planned visit to Lithuania next year, the country's former ambassador to the Holy See said on Wednesday.

Lithuanian officials have already discussed preparations for Pope Francis' planned visit in 2018, Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis said on Wednesday.

Pope Francis plans to visit Lithuania in the autumn of 2018, the president's office confirmed to BNS on Wednesday.

The Aleksandras Stulginskis University has presented three oak trees and a sculpture of Man of Sorrows to Pope Francis on the occasion of 100 years of restored Lithuanian statehood.

Lithuania's Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis and Pope Francis on Friday discussed emigration challenges, humanitarian assistance to Ukraine, social compassion to the impoverished and affected, assistance to families and birth rate promotion issues, the government said.

Lithuania's Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis is scheduled to meet with Pope Francis in the Vatican on Friday.

Lithuania's Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis is readying for this week's visit to Vatican to meet with Pope Francis.

Up to 50,000 people may attend festivities in Vilnius on Sunday for beatification of Teofilius Matulionis, organizers say, as police plans to boost its presence in the Lithuanian capital.

Pope Francis has set the date for beatification of Lithuanian Archbishop Teofilius Matulionis – he will be announced blessed in Vilnius on June 25.

Pope Francis arrived in Poland on Wednesday to take part in World Youth Day events. Openness to fellow humans, especially amidst the refugee crisis in Europe, has been the Pope's central message, but will it be heard in the country that has refused to accept refugees, a Lithuanian historian wonders....

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.

Refugees were the focus of Monday's meeting between Lithuania's President Dalia Grybauskaitė and Vatican's Secretary of State Cardinal Pietro Parolin.

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The Western political establishment is hostile to Russia. This makes it all the more important to demonstrate that the Western religious establishment is more sympathetic. Regardless of Putin’s aims, the meeting between Pope and Patriarch has become a landmark event in the history of Christianity.

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.

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.