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Bergoglio in the Baltic States/1 Contenuto disponibile in Italiano Lithuania looks forward to Francis’ arrival. Fr Sotnicenka, “we need to hope and to extend our gaze to the future”

Vilnius Lituania veduta 755x491.jpg.pagespeed.ce. 56G9O7AYNNext 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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