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Abortion in Poland is illegal except in cases where the pregnancy is a result of a criminal act or when the woman's life or health is in danger. The last change in the Act on Pregnancy Planning of the Republic of Poland took place on 27 January 2021, when publication of the judgment of the Polish Constitutional Tribunal in the Dziennik Ustaw RP ...
Other religions practiced in Poland, by less than 0.1% of the population, include Islam, Judaism, Hinduism, and Buddhism. In the 2021 census, the most common religion was Roman Catholicism, whose followers comprised 72.4% of the population, followed by the Eastern Orthodoxy with 0.4%, Jehovah's Witnesses with 0.3%, and various Protestant ...
Protestantism in Poland is the third largest faith in Poland, after the Roman Catholic Church (32,440,722) and the Polish Orthodox Church (503,996). As of 2018 there were 103 registered Protestant denominations in Poland, [2] and in 2023 there were 130,000 Protestants in the country (0.35% of the population).
Linguistic and religious structure of Galicia according to the 1910 Austrian census; Today part of County Pop. Polish Ruthenian (Ukrainian) Other Slavic German Other language Roman Catholic Protestant Uniate Orthodox Jewish Other religion Poland: Kraków City 151886 94.4% 0.4% 1.8% 3.4% 0.0% 76.8% 0.7% 1.1% 0.0% 21.3% 0.0% Poland: Biała: 86174 ...
The Renaissance in Poland ( Polish: Renesans, Odrodzenie; literally: the Rebirth) lasted from the late 15th to the late 16th century and is widely considered to have been the Golden Age of Polish culture. Ruled by the Jagiellonian dynasty, the Crown of the Kingdom of Poland (from 1569 part of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth) actively ...
Christmas in Poland is a major annual celebration, as in most countries of the Christian world. The observance of Christmas developed gradually over the centuries, beginning in ancient times; combining old Polish pagan customs with the religious ones introduced after the Christianization of Poland by the Catholic Church .
Warsaw Confederation. Original act of the Warsaw Confederation. The Warsaw Confederation, signed on 28 January 1573 by the Polish national assembly ( sejm konwokacyjny) in Warsaw, was one of the first European acts granting religious freedoms. It was an important development in the history of Poland and of Lithuania that extended religious ...
