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New Museum For Nowa Huta
The Museum of the History of Cracow will be opening a brand new branch this week in the famous (at times infamous!) suburb of Nowa Huta.
Nowa Huta was found... | Art and Culture |
Election Polls A Close Run Thing
If parliamentary elections were held presently, the rightist Law & Justice (PiS) would top popularity ratings, replacing the leading centrist Civic Platform (PO... | Current Affairs |
US Journalist Harassed
The World Press Freedom Committee made a Fund Against Censorship grant to Poland-based US journalist Preston Smith, a reporter for the English-language Poland M... | Current Affairs |
eBay Launches In Poland
Internet auction company eBay Inc. says it's starting a new Web site in Poland where buyers and sellers can meet and trade.
The service aims to build a local... | Business |
Church Caught In Informer Row
An historian from the Cracow branch of the Institute of National Remembrance sparked a storm of controversy yesterday when he declared that he had studied docum... | Current Affairs |
Ankara Criticizes Polish Stance
Turkey has sharply criticised Poland for acknowledging the killing of thousands of Armenians by Turks between 1915 and 1917 as genocide.
Earlier this week P... | Current Affairs |
Walesa Champions Armenian Plight
Lech Walesa, Poland’s former president and a Nobel Peace Prize winner, made on Thursday an emotional case for the recognition by Turkey of the 1915 genocide of ... | Current Affairs |
Belarusian President Lambasts Poland
Poland’s parliamentary speaker Wlodzimierz Cimoszewicz has said that the Belarussian president’s attacks on Polish diplomats are scandalous and groundless.
... | Current Affairs |
Interest In EU Work Wanes
The interest of Poles in working in European Union countries is smaller now than it was a year ago, before Poland entered the bloc.
According to a survey ca... | Current Affairs |
Bells Ring In Pope
Polish archbishops have said they are convinced Benedict XVI will carry on the work of his predecessor Polish-born John Paul II.
They stressed that cardinal... | Current Affairs |
Warsaw Ghetto Anniversary
A leader of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising warned the world Tuesday not to forget Polish Jews' historic resistance to their Nazi conquerors on the 62nd anniversary ... | Current Affairs |
Parliament Recognizes Armenian Tragedy
Yesterday the Polish Sejm unanimously passed a resolution on the Armenian Genocide. The document was initiated by the Sejm Presidium.
“The remembrance of th... | Comment |
Poland Hails New Pope
Still grieving for their native son John Paul II, people in Krakow on Tuesday expressed happiness and hope at the election of Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger of Germa... | Current Affairs |
Film Producer Behind Bars
A Warsaw court ruled on Monday that the Polish co-producer of the Oscar-winning film "Schindler's List" must immediately start serving his two-year prison term ... | Comment |
Prayers In The Darkness
A solemn liturgy on occasion of the 1600th anniversary of the creation of the Armenian written language was chanted in the Church of St. Nicholas in Krakow yest... | City Focus |
Cardinals Resume Quest
Cardinals who failed to elect a new pope in their first vote of a historic papal conclave prepared for two more tries Tuesday morning in a secret and sacred que... | Current Affairs |
John Paul's Seal Is Broken
Roman Catholic cardinals destroyed the late Pope John Paul's ring and seal in a symbolic end to his authority before they seclude themselves from the world to e... | Current Affairs |
1 Million Dollars Cocaine Turns To Sugar
Polish prosecutors are investigating the disappearance of 20 kg (44 lbs) of cocaine from a police warehouse, where it had been replaced by an identical quantity... | Comment |
Wajda To Make Katyn Film
Polish film director Andrzej Wajda is planning to film a movie about the World War II Katyn massacre, the state-run news agency TASR reported.
"It's a compl... | Art and Culture |
Conclave Starts In Rome
In a historic gathering steeped in intrigue, cardinals from six continents assembled Monday for their first conclave of the new millennium to elect a pope who w... | Current Affairs |
Pope's Book Breaks Records
The late Pope John Paul's last book has become the all-time bestseller in his native Poland, eclipsing the previous record-holder Harry Potter and the Order of ... | Current Affairs |
Seeing the Light
The owner of an escort agency in the small town of Poronin in southern Poland is closing down his business out of respect for Pope John Paul II , who died on Ap... | Comment |
Italians Open On Papal Successor
Pope John Paul II was the first non-Italian pope in 455 years, and many analysts say the Italians are desperate to reclaim the papacy. But ordinary Italians on ... | Current Affairs |
Pope Film Premiere
Italian film critics got their first viewing Thursday of a new miniseries about Pope John Paul II that focuses on the pontiff's early years, when his native Pol... | Art and Culture |
Trouble In Walesaland
It's been a funny fortnight for Lech Walesa, former President of Poland and moustachioed hero of the Solidarity movement.
It began with the the passing of hi... | Current Affairs |
Cracovia Stadium Renamed
Cracovia Football association has just announced that their stadium is to be renamed after the late Pope John Paul II.
In many ways the idea seems a fitting ... | City Focus |
Poles Picket Russian Embassy
Relatives of some of the 22,000 Polish prisoners of war murdered by Soviet forces in 1940 picketed the Russian Embassy in Warsaw Wednesday, demanding Moscow apo... | Current Affairs |
Exotic Shops Are In The Firing Line
As an unfortunate quirk of fate would have it, John Paul II Avenue (which runs right through the heart of the Polish capital) is a high holy place for sex shop... | Current Affairs |
Katyn Crime Casts Shadow
On this day in 1943, the Nazi regime released news of the discovery of mass graves in the West Russian forest of Katyn. The victims were Polish soldiers, and ea... | History |
Ukraine's Borders Will Open
There's great news for EU travellers this Spring as Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko has announced that visas will no longer be needed to enter his country... | Current Affairs |
A Polish Ukrainian Alliance
Ukrainian President Viktor Yuschchenko was greeted with a standing ovation yesterday when he arrived for a speech at Warsaw University.
It was some time befo... | Current Affairs |
Poland Will Leave Iraq
Poland's government decided on Tuesday to withdraw its troops from Iraq at the end of 2005, making official an earlier proposal, Defense Minister Jerzy Szmajdzi... | Comment |
Simple Tomb Greets Visitors
Some said they had come not only to pray for John Paul, but also to pray to him. Many Roman Catholics believe John Paul, who died April 2 at age 84, was a saint... | Current Affairs |
Sundance In Cracow
Great news for theatre lovers: the Sundance Institute is bringing a stage workshop to Cracow later this month. Between the 14th and 16th of April, the Pulitzer ... | Comment |
Walesa Tries To Heal Rift
Former president and Solidarity leader Lech Walesa is ready to invite current president Aleksander Kwasniewski to ceremonies marking the 25th anniversary of Sol... | Current Affairs |
A Return To Form
Optimists were proved sadly wrong on Sunday night when violence erupted after the Cracovia vs Legia match. For a week following the extraordinary mass of rememb... | Comment |
Penderecki's Paean To The Pope
Krzysztof Penderecki, Poland's most celebrated composer, has announced his plans to complete his 'Polish Requiem', a work of several parts that the artist has b... | Art and Culture |
Yushchenko in Poland
President Aleksander Kwasniewski has confirmed that Poland supports Ukraine’s bid to join the European Union. Speaking after talks in Warsaw with Ukrainian Pres... | Current Affairs |
Pope's Path To Sainthood
The Italian daily Corriere della Sera writes that Pope John Paul II may already be beatified by October in the first stage towards becoming a Roman Catholic sai... | Comment |
Frans Masereel Exhibition
An exhibition of over 100 works by the foremost Belgian painter and graphic artist, one of the most prolific contemporary woodcut artists. Frans Masereel is kno... | Art and Culture |
Statue of John Paul Unveiled
A monument to John Paul II was inaugurated Saturday at Rakowicki cemetery in Krakow, where the late pope's family are buried.
The 1.6-metre high bronze, by ... | City Focus |
Pope's Hometown Continues Vigil
Hundreds of Poles continued to pray for their beloved countrymen Pope John Paul in his hometown of Wadowice Saturday, packing the town's cathedral even after th... | Current Affairs |
Cracow Bids Pope Farewell
Alarm sirens wailed and church bells tolled across Poland to mark the start of funeral rites for Pope John Paul as millions gathered to pay their last respects ... | City Focus |
White March: Thursday, April 7th
As many as half a million people are expected to gather today in Cracow for a remembrance march for Pope John Paul II.
Mourners will wear white in an echo o... | City Focus |
Echoes Of Solidarity In Pope's Passing
From warring rival soccer fans to bickering politicians, Poles put aside their differences this week in collective mourning for their late countryman, Pope John... | Current Affairs |
China Stung By Taiwanese At Vatican
China says it would not send a representative to Pope John Paul II's funeral in Rome to protest the presence of Taiwan President Chen Shui-bian at the event.
... | Current Affairs |
Poles Flock To Rome
Thousands of Poles boarded buses, trains and planes for Rome on Tuesday for the funeral of their compatriot Pope John Paul, while many more flocked to the Polis... | Current Affairs |
Poles Plan Friday's Send-Off
A flurry of plans are emerging for the funeral of Pope John Paul II this Friday morning. Although confirmation is still pending for many of Cracow's tributes, i... | Comment |
All Roads Lead To Rome
The Polish national railway company PKP has announced it will lay on six special trains to take pilgrims to Rome for John Paul II's funeral. Fares for the trip ... | Art and Culture |
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