In 1409, Vytautas built a church in his native Trakai in honor of the Visitation of Mary (feast was July 2 ... This icon of the Mother of God is said to be the first and the oldest known in Lithuania ...

In the Visitation narrative we look to Mary as model of the apostolate of the Church. She brings Jesus and a blessing to the house of Zechariah. The experience of the primitive Church was that the ...

This church was "discovered" by Portuguese missionaries in the 16th century. After attempts to "latinize" the rite, many broke away to form their own rite under the control of the Syrian Patriarch.

It’s usually gauche to take pictures in church. But at St. John’s, the Episcopal Church just across a sedate Lafayette Square from the White House, photography is inevitable at least once ...

While Lithuania’s inflation has dropped below that in the rest of the eurozone during 2024, high rates of inflation and wage growth in the previous years leave price and wage levels elevated, ...

74 2271 Since the first century the Church has affirmed the moral evil of every procured abortion. This teaching has not changed and remains unchangeable. Direct abortion, that is to say ...

A Tunisian man went on trial Monday accused of stabbing to death three people in a church in the southern French city of Nice ...

David Tudor (l), who has now been banned for life from the Church of England, was pictured talking to Stephen Cottrell, then Bishop of Chelmsford, in 2014 A woman who says she was sexually abused ...

SALT LAKE CITY — Interest in Utah's five national parks rebounded in 2024 to the highest levels since a record-breaking surge in visitation in 2021. Over 11.1 million visited Utah's "Mighty 5 ...

Lithuania will increase its defence spending to between 5% and 6% of GDP starting in 2026 due to the threat of Russian aggression in the region, the Baltic nation's President Gitanas Nausėda said ...

VILNIUS - Lithuania said on Saturday it had disconnected its electricity system from Russia's power grid, part of a plan which the three Baltic states say will integrate them more closely with the ...