Last year, Chicagoland’s Lt. Gary Witkowski, a career officer in the US Army, experienced one of his strangest Christmases ever when sharing opłatek in a bullet-proof vest. That was in Afghanistan, ...

Market crowned the most beautiful in Europe. Anna DRUŚ. The Wrocław Christmas Market, an event held annually for many years, was voted the most beautiful in E ...

POLISH NEWS BYTES Compiled by Robert Strybel, Warsaw Correspondent (Updated 19 December 2024) Marcin Romanowski/ph:/pl.wikipedia.org Ex-justice official flees Poland, receives asylum in Hungary Marcin ...

On December 13 th as first reported by The Washington Times, Team Trump released a video featuring President Trump’s triumphant return to the world stage with his first international trip since ...

How Pani Nowak brought back Christmas A PolAm Christmas story By Robert Strybel, Polish/Polonian Affairs Writer As long as anyone could remember, she had always been simply Pani Nowak. The ...

Christmas is a particularly close and family-oriented holiday for Poles. The Christmas Eve table attracts relatives scattered all over the world. Gathering for this special meal provides a sense of ...

Assault on „Solidarność”, Karol Nawrocki, President of the Institute of National Remembrance “For those who wanted freedom, the communist authorities had truncheons, tear gas and internment centres.

Let’s imagine a space alien (once referred to as “a little green man”) sent to America in December (or November or October). Wondering about all the bright lights, glittery decorations and hard-sell ...

A: Although similar in texture and taste to the communion host, this white Christmas wafer bearing imprinted Nativity motifs is known as “opłatek”. It gets its name from the Latin “oblata” (something ...

Prior to the high-powered 20th-century propaganda campaign that turned the saintly Bishop Nicholas into an oversized elf surrounded by reindeer. elves and snowmen, this feast day had nothing to do ...

He had an enormous appetite for life. During his many expeditions, he sought out the sunny side of life, which he described with the fervour of a reporter in more than thirty books. 130 years ago, on ...