The death of Polish President Lech Kaczynski and an entourage in a plane crash in western Russia has united Poles as well as Christian leaders from the country.

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.

Poland's Roman Catholic bishops have urged the media to respect the decision of a top archbishop to resign due to accusations that he acted as an informer for Poland's former communist secret police - writes Jonathan Luxmoore for Ecumenical News International.