Category - poland

Warm welcome for Obama's reversal of missile plan

staff writers — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 13:19:57 +0100

The US President, Barack Obama, has abandoned controversial plans to site a missile system in Poland and the Czech Republic. The decision is likely to ease tensions in the USA’s relations with Russia.

Polish Lutheran EU president wants deeper dialogue with faiths

Ecumenical News International — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 01:02:12 +0100

A Polish Lutheran who is the first president of the European Parliament from a post-communist European country, says he wants to deepen dialogue with the continent's Christian churches.

Polish Catholic activists annoyed about Madonna concert

Ecumenical News International — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 09:19:19 +0100

Some Catholics in Poland have formed a protest committee in a bid to stop a concert in Warsaw by Madonna on the Feast of the Assumption. But not all see it as a problem.

Polish priest in supermarket 'sell out' row

Ecumenical News International — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 08:41:45 +0100

A Polish priest has defended his decision to allow his parish to be used to advertise and recruit staff for a new Tesco hypermarket, despite previous church criticisms of the UK retail giant.

Government to back hands-on Holocaust education among young

staff writers — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 18:10:00 +0000

The UK government will sponsor student trips to Auschwitz concentration camp in an effort to keep the message of the Nazi Holocaust alive and relevant to younger generations, say reports in Deutsche Welle, The Times and the BBC.

British and Polish Catholics disagree over care of Polish migrants

Ecumenical News International — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 21:18:33 +0000

Roman Catholic leaders in Britain and in Poland have publicly disagreed over how best to provide pastoral care for large numbers of Polish migrants who are currently living and working in the United Kingdom.

Polish election result seen as a defeat for religious extremism

staff writers — Tue, 23 Oct 2007 09:13:10 +0100

The massive poll win for Poland's liberal-right Civic Platform party, which has ousted Prime Minister Jaroslaw Kaczynski's hardline conservatives in the general election, is a defeat for extreme Catholic nationalism, analysts say.

British shopping giant attacked over Polish working practices

Ecumenical News International — Fri, 24 Aug 2007 12:18:17 +0100

Britain's supermarket giant Tesco is under fire from Polish church and trade union officials after it ignored a new ban on trading during Roman Catholic festivals which are also public holidays. The shopping transnational is accused of "trampling" on workers' rights.

Polish parliament bans trading on Catholic feast days

Ecumenical News International — Mon, 16 Jul 2007 15:20:23 +0100

Polish parliamentarians have voted to ban trading on Roman Catholic feast days after complaints that foreign supermarkets, such as British-owned Tesco, are ignoring the religious needs of workers.

Polish Christians face moral dilemmas of communist era

Ecumenical News International — Sun, 13 May 2007 16:08:02 +0100

Attempts to bring to justice past participators in human rights abuses in communist-era Poland are raising moral dilemmas for Protestant and Catholc Christians across the country. New law makes the issues unavoidable.