Israel’s education minister said on Monday he was “honoured” Poland had cancelled his visit to Warsaw this week because he refused to back off of condemnation of a bill that would outlaw suggesting Poland was complicit in the Holocaust. Earlier on Monday, Naftali Bennett said he would travel to Poland to discuss the bill, which […]
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Faith Matters launches a ground-breaking paper looking at worrying levels of far-right anti-Muslim racism in Poland and anti-Muslim activism in the UK in Polish Communities The full report can be downloaded HERE. Faith Matters is proud to launch a new briefing paper to outline some of the key dynamics and drivers of far-right narratives between […]
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Polish President Andrzej Duda said on Monday there was no place in Poland for xenophobia, anti-Semitism and “sick nationalism”, denouncing hate speech at a nationalist march in Warsaw in comments later echoed by ruling party leader Jaroslaw Kaczynski. Jewish groups have called on the Polish authorities to condemn the message of banners with slogans […]
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Poland has put on display over 3,000 artifacts recovered from the site of a former Nazi concentration camp. The items are mostly personal effects that belonged to prisoners in the Sobibor prison. Which killed at least 250,000 Jews during World War Two, although exact numbers are unknown. Eyeglasses, jewellery, and children’s belongings taken from them […]
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Pope Francis will visit the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp in July, as part of World Youth Day. This trip coincides with his five day trip to Poland, arriving on July 27 and departing July 31. Pope John Paul II, himself Polish, became the first pope to visit the camp. Benedict XVI visited in 2006. The US Holocaust Museum estimates that the SS had murdered at least 960,000 of the 1.1m Jews deported to the camp. Of the 23,000 Romani, the Nazis murdered 21,000. Other victims included 15,000 Poles, 15,000 Soviet prisoners of war. And 10-15,000 members of other nationalities perished (including Czechs, Yugoslavs, Germans, Austrians and French). On June 7, 1979, Pope John II made a five-hour visit to the camp. He prayed before a stone crucifix in memory of the Catholic priest Maksymilian Kolbe, prisoner number 16670, who the SS murdered in 1941. Kolbe volunteered to die, so Franciszek Gajowniczek, a father of five might live. Gajowniczek, the Polish army sargeant had been chosen to die in an Auschwitz dungeon called the “hunger bunker,” after a prisoner had escaped. Kolbe pleaded, ‘I want to take the place of this man. He has a wife and a family. I have no one. [...]
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Many of you will never have heard of Miriam Shaded of the Esther Foundation in Poland. Recently the Esther Foundation, which seems to based on promoting a youthful and attractive persona based on Shaded herself, has been working with the Barnabas Fund to bring Syrian Christian refugees to Poland. Further information on one of the
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Many of you will never have heard of Miriam Shaded of the Esther Foundation in Poland. Recently the Esther Foundation, which seems to based on promoting a youthful and attractive persona based on Shaded herself, has been working with the Barnabas Fund to bring Syrian Christian refugees to Poland. Further information on one of the
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Many of you will never have heard of Miriam Shaded of the Esther Foundation in Poland. Recently the Esther Foundation, which seems to based on promoting a youthful and attractive persona based on Shaded herself, has been working with the Barnabas Fund to bring Syrian Christian refugees to Poland. Further information on one of the
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Many of you will never have heard of Miriam Shaded of the Esther Foundation in Poland. Recently the Esther Foundation, which seems to based on promoting a youthful and attractive persona based on Shaded herself, has been working with the Barnabas Fund to bring Syrian Christian refugees to Poland. Further information on one of the
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We have been notified of a Facebook page called ‘Poland – Birmingham‘ which highlights an area of growing concern for us. Over the last 4 years, we have not highlighted this issue since we have believed that a migrant community that has also suffered a great deal of prejudice and bigotry deserves support and no
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