Caroline Zielinski
With hundreds of thousands of followers, they are connecting to younger audiences by blending modern technology with ancient scripture.
Caroline Zielinski
With hundreds of thousands of followers, they are connecting to younger audiences by blending modern technology with ancient scripture.
The church says the money made from renting out the building will help fund modernisation of its energy system.
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The new set of rules for priests, which aim to protect children from abuse, are the first of their kind in Poland.
31 December this year falls on a Friday, when practising Catholics are supposed to abstain from meat.
The episcopate today published official figures, and offered an apology to those harmed.
“Christianity is the most important element uniting our Polish history,” said Marek Jędraszewski.
The bishop failed to act on complaints from the victim of a paedophile priest.
“They will miss it and come back,” says Kraków’s archbishop
The education minister announced plans to make biblical studies an academic discipline.
They showed “negligence in cases of sexual abuse committed by clergy against minors”.
Polls indicate that a majority of Poles want the state to stop funding religion lessons.
Despite learning of abuse accusations in the mid-1990s, the church allowed the priest to continue working in education.
The event’s motto was “Christians and Muslims: together protecting places of worship”.
Konstanty Pilawa
A political spectacle played out inside a church highlights the dangers.