• Visiting Italian journalist receives "objective" information about the situation of the Catholic Church in Lithuania

  • Numerous raids by the security police are followed by interrogations


  • Text of petition sent by 1,000 believers requesting an able-bodied priest for their parish; and its aftermath

  • Priests are fined for catechization of children (Father Molis, Father Nykštus, Father Žvinys, Father Galvydis)

  • Text of a declaration sent by Father B. Laurinavičius to various ecclesiastical and Soviet authorities

  • Nuns are dismissed from their positions

  • The authorities allow twelve candidates to enter the theological seminary

  • The erection of a cross on the Hill of Crosses results in interrogations

  • The authorities hamper believers on their way to a religious festival at Šiluva

  • Pastor is upbraided for organizing volunteer workers to clean the church

  • Confirmation rites are cancelled due to "harvesting"

  • Tarasov of the Council for Religious Affairs declares that the believers of Klaipėda must be content with their overcrowded church

  • Woman is fined for selling devotional articles

  • Classmates are not allowed to attend a boy's funeral

  • Schoolchildren are made to answer a questionnaire on religious topics