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Home is where the heart lies: the amazing story of Chopin’s heart

Bolesław Bierut, the communist leader, hands over the casket containing Chopin's heart to Mayor of Warsaw Stanisław Tołwińśki in 1945. Public domain

Cut from the famed composer, the heart is a focal point of Polish history and culture.

Higher calling: Christian café becomes a hit with Warsaw’s coffee loving faithful

Welcoming all, the café has turned heads with speed-dating events for Christians.

President receives members of religious and minority organisations

The Polish presidential couple held New Year's meeting with representatives of churches and religious denominations as well as national and ethnic minorities present in Poland, at the Presidential Palace on Tuesday.

Xmas Massacre! TFN’s Stuart Dowell looks back at the grisly tale of a Christmas Eve murder

Following the brutal killings, local villagers on a bus who had watched the young family being battered to death were paid hush money. The subsequent investigation concluded it had been an accident until the conspiracy of silence was broken by a young boy.

Building up to the spirit in the sky: the story of Wilanów’s vast Temple of Divine Providence

TFN explores the history and the stunning architecture of one of the country’s biggest and most expensive new churches.

‘Kitschy’ church becomes youngest building to win privileged heritage protection status

With a date of birth that places it at the heart of the millennial generation, the Greek Catholic orthodox church in Western Pomerania is the architectural equivalent of crushed avocado on toast.

Polish bishops set up foundation for Church abuse victims

The St. Joseph Foundation was established by Polish bishops to assist and support persons who were abused during their childhood or youth, in the Church community, Episcopal Conference of Poland (KEP) spokesman Rev. Pawel Rytel-Andrianik told PAP on Wednesday.

Chilling tales from the crypt: bones of child go on display in Warsaw church

The remains are thought to be those of an aristocratic boy who died back in 1755

Late Polish Primate Wyszyński to be beatified - Vatican

Pope Francis has approved a decree of beatification of late Polish Primate Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński, justified by the miracle of healing that occurred through Wyszyński's intercession, the Vatican's press office announced on Wednesday.

Thousands of 17th century silver coins found buried in Teutonic Knights’ church

The haul bearing the image of King Sigismund III Vasa also includes Prussian shillings struck for Prince George Wilhelm Hohenzollern, who was a fief of the Republic of Poland. It remains a mystery why the coins were placed where they were and why they have remained hidden until today. h century silver coins has been found under the floor of a monastic church.

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Top 5 articles:

  • Mayor offers reward to first couple to have a boy in village where only girls are born
  • It’s official! Kraków is the best place in Europe for food, says European Academy of Gastronomy
  • Poland in COVID-19 LOCKDOWN! PM orders bars, restaurants, shopping centres and borders closed - and cancels ALL flights
  • Villager finds stash of 17th-century coins after falling off his bike while looking for mushrooms
  • The systematic massacre of all children under 10 will forever be a stain on humanity, says TFN’s Stuart Dowell
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Song and dance group revives unique traditions of Poland’s Lemko culture

Historically from the Beskid and Pieniny highlands around Beskid Sądecki, Beskid Niski and parts of the Pienin mountains, the Lemkos were displaced from their native lands in 1947 and resettled in Western Poland as part of ‘Operation Vistula’, the Communist authority’s forced resettlement of several Polish minorities from the south-east of post-war Poland to the reclaimed territories in the west of the country.

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  • Poland considering purchase of Chinese-made vaccine
  • Polish State Treasury debt at EUR 242.7 bln in January
  • Poland to allocate EUR 154.8 million for Rare Diseases Plan
  • Polish companies to receive nearly EUR 1.6 bln from anti-crisis package

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‘I grew up in death camp house’: Extraordinary story of women born in Auschwitz and who has lived there ever since

Once asked to draw the view from her bedroom window for homework, Anna Odi couldn’t decide whether to draw the crematorium or the gallows where Auschwitz commandant Rudolf Hoess was executed. She told TFN: “I think I am a hostage to the stories of people who experienced this hell. I am continuing what my parents started, to be a witness. Like my parents, I owe it to the victims.”

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