Catholic Church

The Archdiocese of Vilnius has established a service to hear out victims of sexual abuse within the Catholic Church.

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.

Pope Francis announced his decision on Sunday to name Archbishop Emeritus of Kaunas Sigitas Tamkevicius a cardinal.

Pope Francis has landed in Lithuania on Saturday at the start of his four-day Baltic tour during which he will show respect to the three nations' independence and pay homage to the victims of the Nazi and Soviet regimes.

Lithuanian institutions and the Catholic Church have started coordinating financial issues related to the upcoming visit of Pope Francis, with funds to be spent on stages, protection, decorations.

An advertising campaign introducing the Lithuanian capital of Vilnius as "the G-Spot of Europe" does not cross the morality line but the timing of its launch should have better considered, Lithuanian Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis says.

The coronation of Mindaugas is viewed as the birth of the Lithuanian state, however we rarely consider whether we really understand what the title of king meant in the Europe of the time and who could legitimately pursue it.

Eighty non-governmental organizations and almost 30 academicians have asked Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė to veto the recently-passed Law on the Strengthening of the Family.

The Lithuanian Genocide and Resistance Research Center (LGGRTC) is starting publishing agency reports by agents of the Soviet special service KGB.

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.

The Assumption of the Virgin Mary into Heaven is marked by Catholics in Lithuania on the 15th of August when the first harvest of fruit and berries is sanctified.

Clergymen of the Roman Catholic Church of Lithuania have expressed indignation of the Tuesday's ruling by the Constitutional Court, which said that the clergy of traditional religious communities had been dismissed from military or alternative defense service without due grounds.

Lithuania's Catholic Church will for the first time ordain married men as deacons, Kauno Diena daily said.

The sparks flying due to the Artificial Insemination Law should not impact the ratings of the Lithuanian Peasant and Greens Union (LPGU) and a part of society may overall find the topic hard to understand note experts.

When I go abroad I like to have a chat with taxi drivers – they help better understand the moods of the public. A young taxi driver I met in Warsaw in May this year cursed “I’m emigrating in a month to Norway with my family and won’t return until Jaroslaw Kaczynski is behind bars.” This is how he ev...

Lithuania's Catholic Church on Friday urged the community to vote for the politicians who support Christian views of families.