News Lithuania Religion: Lithuanian court convicts the leader of a governing party of inciting hatred against Jews
VILNIUS, Lithuania (AP) — The district court in the capital, Vilnius, found that Remigijus Žemaitaitis incited hatred against Jews, grossly downplayed Nazi Germany’s crimes and grossly minimized the Holocaust in an offensive and insulting manner.
News Lithuania Religion: Once a beacon of the Yiddish speaking world, Lithuania's Jews work to keep it alive
VILNIUS, Lithuania (RNS) — If one city could be said to be the home of Yiddish, the traditional language of Ashkenazi Jewry, many would point to Vilnius, the capital of modern-day Lithuania, where a program hopes to preserve and expand it.
News Lithuania Religion: Why Folk Religions Are Booming in Lithuania
Because cultural crossover happens in the strangest places. The linguistic similarity between darna and dharma is likely a coincidence — scholars say the two don’t necessarily share an etymology. But ...
News Lithuania Religion: Romuva and the Vedic Gods of Lithuania
In May 2018, the Lithuanian traditional religion of Romuva was given state recognition. Now the Romuvans have the right to teach their religion in schools and their marriage ceremony will be ...
News Lithuania Religion: Seeing St. Petersburg and Helsinki
These are the Baltic States; Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania. But we didn’t visit these other ... Mind you in Russia, the Orthodox Church is the main Russian religion. But in Sweden, Estonia, or ...
News Lithuania Religion: My Mother Survived Italy’s Bombing Of Tel Aviv. Her Life Was Never The Same
About 100 years ago my great-grandfather, Zvi Yaakov (Hirsh) Levin, who had immigrated to America with his family from Shat, Lithuania ... established a modern religious girls’ school called ...
News Lithuania Religion: With Soviet power gone, Baltic countries’ historic pagan past re-emerges
“According to the law of religions in Lithuania — 25 years (after) our official registration, we can apply for getting a higher status.” Lithuania was the last nation in Europe to officially ...
