Florentine Prashina, like many members of East Chicago`s Lithuanian community, always regarded St. Francis Lithuanian Catholic Church as a second home, a part of her family. ”My grandparents were ...

Lithuanian Americans in Connecticut began celebrating an annual Mass for their homeland in 1990 to pray for the release of the church from years of Soviet religious repression. That same year, Soviet ...

Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X FRACKVILLE – All things Lithuanian were celebrated Saturday as the 102nd annual Lithuanian Days ...

Bishop Ansas Trakis, 74, pastor of the Lithuanian Evangelical Lutheran Home Church, 6641 S. Troy St., died Monday in Holy Cross Hospital, where he was admitted Sunday after being injured in a fall in ...

“This represents a victory in the Lithuanian Jewish Community’s long-term efforts to insure respect for the dead and the Jewish legacy in Lithuania,” communal leaders said. (JTA) — Lithuania’s ...

LAWRENCE — Merrimack Valley residents will be celebrating the 100th anniversary of the independence of Lithuania at Corpus Christi Parish on Sunday. The observance will begin with a Mass, celebrated ...

A Lithuanian church has removed the Jewish gravestones that had been serving as stairs and returned them to the cemetery where they likely originated from, an organization representing Lithuanian ...

A clergyman is pictured in a file photo during a procession outside the Basilica of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Siluva, Lithuania. With an open letter, Catholics in Lithuania have urged ...

St. Casimir Church parishioners say their worst fear is coming true: The Archdiocese of Boston will close their beloved and historic Lithuanian Catholic church. Parishioners said the church is ...