On Sunday, millions of people at the Papal Mass in Philadelphia and around the world heard a new composition by Julian Darius Revie, a Canadian Lithuanian. The piece was heard as Pope Francis received Communion. Revie’s “The Love of God” was performed by The Philadelphia Orchestra and the 350-voice ...
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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.
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.
During the second half of this year, Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė will pay visits to ten foreign countries, including Vatican where she will have an audience with Pope Francis.
During an audience with Pope Francis in Vatican, Speaker of the Lithuanian parliament Loreta Graužinienė invited him for a papal visit to Lithuania. The pope thanked for the invitation.
Pope Francis met with Lithuanian bishops on Monday and thanked them for their "heroic" defence of the Church during the Soviet times. He also warned about “other dangers such as secularism and relativism", the Vatican Radio reports.
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.