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Poland: Preventing Abuse Must Be a Priority in the Church
"Building a prevention system and supporting the injured parties must be a priority for the Church in the world and in Poland," underlined the speakers of a Webinar regarding protection against child abuse, held on 13 January 2021 and addressed mainly to the Polish media to inform about the initiatives undertaken in this regard by the Church in Poland.
Report on the operation of the system of protection of minors in the Church in Poland
The tasks of individual entities of the sexual abuse response system, the assistance to victims and the prevention in the Polish Church, as well as their activities in 2020, are presented in the annual report prepared by the Office of the Delegate of the Polish Bishops' Conference (KEP) and the Saint Joseph Foundation of the KEP.
Presentation of research on the sexual abuse of minors in the Church in the years 1958-2020
In the period from July 1, 2018 to December 31, 2020, 368 declarations of sexual abuse against minors under and over 15 were received by dioceses and men's orders in Poland. The reports concern the acts committed in the years 1958-2020. 292 priests and religious were accused of sexual crimes against minors during that period. These are the data of the latest report prepared by the Institute of Statistics of the Catholic Church in cooperation with the Office of the Delegate for the Protection of Children and Youth of the Polish Bishops’ Conference. The research was financed by the Saint Joseph Foundation of the Polish Episcopate.
Message from the Head of the Office of the PBC's Delegate for the Protection of Children and Youth
On Friday, August 13th, Archbishop Wojciech Polak, the Polish Episcopal Delegate for the Protection of Children and Young People, transmitted to the State Commission for Pedophilia the results of the analysis of the statistical data gathered in the context of the two searches conducted, as well as the report forms which were used to gather this data.
Institute for Catholic Church Statistics (ICCS): clear continuity in the activities of Catholic structures and organizations in Poland
The data for 2020 included in the annual ICCS statistics show a clear continuity in the activities of Catholic structures and organizations in Poland: parishes, dioceses and religious orders - said Fr. Wojciech Sadłoń PhD, SAC, director of the Institute for Catholic Church Statistics, during a press conference at which the latest research results were presented.
About 500 million PLN was donated by the Polish Church to refugees from Ukraine
Catholic and Greek Catholic parishes in Poland collected and provided Ukrainian refugees staying in Poland with financial and material aid worth at least 209 million PLN, monks and friars donated - 29 million PLN, and nuns donated- 4.3 million PLN. The value of the support provided through Caritas Polska and diocesan Caritas is 241.3 million PLN - according to data presented on Wednesday by the Institute of Statistics of the Catholic Church and Caritas Polska.
Bishops after 400th Plenary Assembly on religious education in school, protection of minors and formation of presbyters
Changes introduced by the Ministry of National Education to the organisation of religious education in school, the preparation of a project of a Commission of independent experts to investigate the phenomenon of sexual abuse of minors in the Catholic Church in Poland, and the formation of presbyters – these were the topics discussed by the bishops at a press conference following the conclusion of the 400th Plenary Assembly of the Polish Bishops' Conference, held in Warsaw on 12-14 March this year.
