Weekly column: Polish Evangelicals are sometimes ready to ‘abort’ their government as well

14-01-2022

Christian Life

Sashko Nezamutdinov, CNE.news

Weekly column: Polish Evangelicals are sometimes ready to ‘abort’ their government as well

“We do not agree with the appropriation of our body”, “This is pure barbarism”, “This is women’s hell”, “I would rather abort my government”. I read these slogans on my friends’ Facebook posts last autumn. And it was not so much the slogans that shocked me, as the fact who posted them.

Walking through Kazimierz, you feel the burden of history. Photo Flickr, Rafael Wagner

Weekly column: Christian life in Poland: In this Catholic city you can see traces of Jewish milk and honey

It was the first time this friend of mine visited me in Krakow. I told him, I would take him to Kazimierz, the Jewish quarter. It was on a Saturday. My friend asked me why bother going there if everything would be closed on the Jewish holy day. I was confused for a minute and then suddenly connected the dots saying: No, my friend! It is indeed called a “Jewish quarter” but not because Jews live there today. It is called so because of the history of that part of the city!