Polish Church Marks 'Day of Islam'

TEHRAN (IQNA) – On January 26, the day following the conclusion of the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity, the Church in Poland commemorated a ‘Day of Islam’.

The Joint Council of Catholics and Muslims and the Committee for Dialogue with Non-Christian Religions of the Polish Bishops’ Conference hosted an event in Bialystok, according to the Italian news agency SIR.

Auxiliary Bishop Henryk Ciereszko of Bialystok said that the day "would be first and foremost a prayer meeting” and would also be "an opportunity to counter violence together” in "the context of the terrorist attacks and the Middle East war,” the catholicculture.org website reported.

Poland is an eastern European country on the Baltic Sea. Some 88 percent of the country’s population is Catholic Christians.

The number of polish Muslims is not clear and estimates range from 20.000 to 50.000.