Lithuania News » Vilnius County News Lithuania » Vilnius County » Religion: Europe's last pagan state was already diverse: Medieval Vilnius drew migrants from Christian lands
News channel or source: https://phys.org/news/2026-07-europe-pagan-state-diverse-medieval.html
Published on: Tuesday 14 July 2026
Lithuania was famously the final pagan state in Europe. While the rest of the continent converted to Christianity, Lithuania remained officially pagan until Catholicism was adopted in AD 1387. Despite ...
News Lithuania » Vilnius County » Religion: Once a beacon of the Yiddish speaking world, Lithuania's Jews work to keep it alive
News channel or source: https://religionnews.com/2024/08/28/once-a-beacon-of-the-yiddish-speaking-world-lithuanias-jews-work-to-keep-it-alive/
Published on: Wednesday 28 August 2024
VILNIUS, Lithuania (RNS) — If one city could be said to be the home of Yiddish, the traditional language of Ashkenazi Jewry, it would not be New York or Jerusalem, in many minds, but Vilnius, the ...