Pope Francis greets faithful in Vilnius, Lithuania, September 22, 2018. Vatican Media/ Handout via REUTERS
VILNIUS (Reuters) - Pope Francis said at the start of a four-day trip to the Baltics on Saturday that Lithuania should see its painful past under Soviet and Nazi domination as an impetus to promote tolerance in Europe.
Francis, on the first trip by a pope to the region since 1993, is using his visit to carry a message of solidarity for Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia as they look warily towards a newly aggressive Russia nearly 30 years after they broke away from the then-Soviet Union.
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