Next September the Pope will visit the three Balkan States. He will travel to Lithuania first, and then he will continue to Estonia and Latvia. The Deputy-Secretary General of the Bishops’ Conference told SIR about the expectations and the preparations for the Pontiff’s arrival twenty-five years after the historic meeting with John Paul II, on the aftermath of the recovery of freedom following the collapse of the USSR. It is a faith made of tradition, combined with secularization. Young people are “an encouraging sign”

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