Romuva, Lithuania's neo-pagan tradition, has attracted thousands of followers since the country broke free from the crumbling Soviet Union in 1990. Petras Malukas, AFP.

Lithuania has an extensive history of paganism. In fact, Lithuania was the last pagan state in Europe. Almost 1,000 years after the official conversion of the Roman Empire facilitated the gradual ...

However, this state of affairs could not continue indefinitely. As the last pagan state of Europe, the Grand Duchy of Lithuania could not be regarded as an equal by the Christian sovereigns of Europe.

Dancing around a blazing fire with garlands of wildflowers in their hair, members of Lithuania's Romuva neo-pagan community mark the summer solstice, as the Baltic state undergoes a revival of its ...

Lithuanian Easter Eggs. 3/10/2021 | 4m 45s Video has Closed Captions | CC. Meet Christine Luschas, an attorney in Bloomsburg who also makes Lithuaianan Easter Eggs. This is the story of a local ...

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — A young female bear caused a stir after wandering out of the forest and into the leafy suburbs of the Lithuanian capital.

Another legend says that in the early 1300s, the hill served as a platform for a wooden castle manned by the pagan barons of Samogitia, once a state in the former Grand Duchy of Lithuania.In 1348 ...

Lithuania’s cute capital has the feel of a supersized village.Venture beyond the fortresses and weathered chunks of city wall and you’ll find plenty of reminders of its tumultuous past ...

Čiurlionis’s reverence towards Lithuania’s pagan past — before adopting Christianity in 1387 it worshipped the natural world — while his country was struggling to maintain its cultural ...

Lithuanian, the most conservative of all Indo-European languages, is riddled with references to bees. In mid-January, the snow made the little coastal town of Šventoji in north-west Lithuania ...