Lithuania

The goal: Destroy religious belief

Sheila Liaugminas | 06 April 2010

Embattled Catholics are forced to defend their church against false charges and extrapolations these days more acutely perhaps than when the scandal first erupted in the U.S. in 2001, and it requires a heroic effort to get and spread accurate information. At least that doesn’t pose the risk of death or imprisonment.

‘The tendency to meddle in everyone’s business’

Sheila Liaugminas | 16 November 2009

Not that long ago, they accurately accused the Communist Party of doing that in Lithuania. They can now accurately say the same thing about the European Parliament.

What the Soviets couldn’t control

Sheila Liaugminas | 25 October 2009

Before and after the Russian Tsarist regime control and Communist occupation of Lithuania, the Catholic Church was always a defining center of gravity.