Poland
Polish Muslim leader helps feed migrants and soldiers
By Adam Pemble and Matthias Schrader — November 15, 2021
Maciej Szczęsnowicz said, "We are supposed to help everybody who entered the Polish border. Everybody, yes, because they are human."
Poles protest strict abortion law after pregnant woman dies
By Associated Press — November 7, 2021
WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Women’s rights activists say doctors in Poland, a heavily Catholic nation, now wait for a fetus with severe defects to die in the womb rather than perform an abortion.
Poland keeps ambassador at home amid dispute with Israel
By Vanessa Gera — August 17, 2021
WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Israel downgraded diplomatic ties with Warsaw and strongly criticized a new Polish law that restricts the rights of Holocaust survivors to reclaim property.
Vatican probes alleged abuse negligence by Polish cardinal
By Associated Press — June 28, 2021
WARSAW, Poland (AP) — The Vatican has been investigating reports, also in the Polish media, of alleged lack of reaction by some of Poland's Roman Catholic Church figures to reports of abuse of minors.
More than two dozen countries launch new religious freedom alliance
By Adelle M. Banks — February 6, 2020
WASHINGTON (RNS) — Poland, one country in the alliance, and the State Department announced that the next Ministerial to Advance Religious Freedom will be held in July in Warsaw.
Polish priest set for sainthood criticized for anti-Semitism
By Monika Scislowska — July 5, 2018
WARSAW, Poland (AP) — It's not clear if the protests will derail the sainthood cause of Cardinal August Hlond, but in the past the Vatican has taken such protests seriously and at the very least put the cases up for closer review.
Remembering the children of the Warsaw Ghetto on the 75th anniversary of the uprising
By Samantha Baskind — April 19, 2018
(RNS) — While the Warsaw Ghetto uprising offers a narrative that has been vibrantly told again and again, mythologized by an American culture that craves happy endings, however feeble they may be, the ghetto’s story also speaks to a different kind of memory: one of lost innocence and mercilessness.
At Auschwitz, remembering the Holocaust after the passage of a contentious Polish law
By Lauren Markoe — April 11, 2018
KRAKOW, Poland (RNS) — Swirling around Thursday's annual march are questions about Poles' willingness to grapple with some of their forebears' participation in the Holocaust.
Poland and the Jews — it’s complicated
By Jeffrey Salkin — February 12, 2018
There are two words you need to use when discussing Polish Jewish history: nuance and ambivalence.
Parliament’s action imperils Polish-Jewish relations
By Agnieszka Markiewicz — February 5, 2018
WARSAW, Poland (RNS) — The ultimate cause of the current crisis is that Poland has not sufficiently confronted its past.
Pope denounces Holocaust ‘indifference’ amid Polish uproar
By Jerome Socolovsky — January 29, 2018
VATICAN CITY (AP) — Poland, which is largely Roman Catholic, is considering legislation that would outlaw blaming Poles for the crimes of the Holocaust.
Artist’s drawing of a herring on a bialy gains an audience in Bialystok — and Hollywood
By Menachem Wecker — July 31, 2017
(RNS) — That a symbol of Jewish folkways would command attention in Hollywood reflects the ways many Jews think about their identity.
Pope Francis recalls ‘the souls’ at Auschwitz
By Josephine McKenna — August 3, 2016
VATICAN CITY (RNS) Reflecting on his visit to the concentration camp last week, the pontiff said the site also reminded him 'of the cruelties of today, which are similar.'
Pope Francis will await judgment on Cardinal Pell over sex abuse claims
By Josephine McKenna — July 31, 2016
ROME (RNS) Pope Francis said that once Australian judicial authorities complete their investigation of the Vatican's finance chief he will take any necessary action.
Francis writes an appeal for mercy in silent visit to Auschwitz
By guest — July 29, 2016
KRAKOW, Poland (RNS) The pontiff spent intense moments in prayer at the infamous concentration camp, then embraced Holocaust survivors and met some who helped Jews persecuted by the Nazis.
