[2] During the Pope Francis's visit to the Baltic states in 2018 the Dievturība and Romuva movements sent a joint letter to Pope Francis calling him to urge fellow Christians "to respect our own religious choice and cease impeding our efforts to achieve national recognition of the ancient Baltic faith".
[11] It is characterised by a monistic theological approach[12] to Baltic paganism viewing all the gods and all nature as expression of the Dievs.
[13] A common view is that the Dievs is at the same time the transcendent fountain of reality, the matter-energy substrate, and the law ordaining the universe.
[17][18][19] Romuva primarily exists in Lithuania but there are also congregations of adherents in Australia, Canada, the United States,[20] and England.
[23] The re-enactment group Vilkatlakai, originally named Baltuva, formed in Lithuania in 1995 and is distinguished by its masculine vision of Baltic paganism.