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EU Bishops to gather in Poland for COMECE Plenary Assembly on 17-19 April
Delegates from the Bishops' Conferences of the European Union will gather in Łomża, Poland, for the Spring COMECE Plenary Assembly on 17-19 April 2024. Marking 20 years after the big EU enlargement, the Assembly will delve into the voices of Central and Eastern Europe in light of the forthcoming European elections.
26,800 Polish children go this year on holiday with Caritas Poland
This year, about 25,000 children from Poland and over 1,800 Polish children coming from Belarus, Ukraine, Lithuania, and Georgia will go on holiday within “Caritas Holiday Action”, which has been organized for over 20 years by Caritas Poland. It enables thousands of children to spend their summer months outside the home - in the mountains, in Masuria or at the seaside. The action lasts until August 31.
President of the Polish Episcopate asks that this Sunday be a day of prayer in defence of the unborn
I warmly encourage you to make the coming Sunday a day of special prayer in defence of the unborn. I ask that in all churches in Poland, at every Holy Mass, we pray for this intention – wrote the President of the Polish Bishops' Conference Archbishop Tadeusz Wojda SAC in an appeal for prayer for the protection of the life of the unborn.
Christmas wishes addressed by Bishop Wiesław Lechowicz to the Polish community abroad
Let no worries obscure the main one, so that we may always be on the way to Jesus! Become God's children, that is, people who unconditionally trust God! Celebrating Christmas means welcoming the Baby Jesus with your heart and trusting him completely. I wish you such celebration, and I pray for it! - wrote Bishop Wiesław Lechowicz, Delegate of the Polish Bishops' Conference for the Polish Emigration, in his Christmas greeting to the Polish Community abroad. The Bishop also asked for prayers for the Homeland and the Church in Poland.
Poland: Day of prayer and penance for sexual abuse of minors
Victims of abuse can count on the fact that in the long and difficult path of recovery they will also be supported by the entire ecclesial community - said Archbishop Stanisław Gądecki, President of the Polish Bishops' Conference on the occasion of the Day of Prayer and Penance for Abuses sexual on minors.
Bishop Markowski: We strongly condemn antisemitic behaviour in Kalisz
We strongly condemn the antisemitic behaviour in Kalisz. Such attitudes have nothing to do with patriotism - Bishop Rafał Markowski wrote on behalf of the Committee for Dialogue with Judaism of the Polish Bishops' Conference. After burning the Kalisz Statute text and the antisemitic incidents that took place on 11th November.
Spokesman of the Polish Episcopate: Pope John Paul II was a Pilgrim of Hope
It is very fitting that in the Jubilee Year lived under the sign of hope, the 20th anniversary of the passing of St John Paul II to the House of the Father falls, for he was a Pilgrim of hope – said the Spokesman of the Polish Bishops' Conference, Fr Leszek Gęsiak SJ, on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the death of St John Paul II, which falls on 2 April.
President of the Polish Bishops' Conference: the Baptism of Poland was a turn from the cult of creation to the cult of the Creator
The turn from the cult of creation to the cult of the Creator is the crucial change that happened through the act of Poland's baptism – said Archbishop Stanislaw Gądecki, President of the Polish Bishops' Conference, stressing the epochal significance of the 966 event. On April 14, the National Feast of the Baptism of Poland is celebrated for the fifth time.
