Lithuania: thirty Orthodox communities petition Parliament to defend their rights and their churchestranslated

Thirty parish and monastic communities of the Orthodox Church of Lithuania, attached to the Moscow Patriarchate, have addressed appeals to the leaders and deputies of the Seimas, the Lithuanian Parliament. They oppose two bills that could modify the legal status of their Church and allow the transfer of several historic religious buildings to the exarchate of the Patriarchate of Constantinople. The faithful demand that their religious freedom and belonging

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