Lithuanians Get a Gift: Christmas
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<i> Associated Press</i>
MOSCOW — Christmas officially returns to Lithuania this year after almost five decades of strictly atheist government holidays, the official news agency Tass reported Wednesday.
The Lithuanian Parliament decreed that Dec. 25 will now be a state holiday in the small republic on the Baltic Sea, Tass said.
An estimated 3 million of Lithuania’s 3.6 million people are Roman Catholic, but Christmas has not been an official holiday since Lithuania was absorbed by the Soviet Union in 1940.
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