Walk out - CathNews New Zealand https://cathnews.co.nz Catholic News New Zealand Mon, 11 Apr 2016 03:20:38 +0000 en-NZ hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 https://cathnews.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/cropped-cathnewsfavicon-32x32.jpg Walk out - CathNews New Zealand https://cathnews.co.nz 32 32 70145804 Women stage church walkout in Poland over abortion laws https://cathnews.co.nz/2016/04/12/women-stage-church-walkout-poland-abortion-laws/ Mon, 11 Apr 2016 17:09:09 +0000 http://cathnews.co.nz/?p=81740 Groups of Catholic women walked out of Masses in two Polish cities to protest at a proposed tightening of the nation's abortion laws. They walked out of churches in Warsaw and Gdansk. At the Warsaw church of St Anna, the women shouted "scandal" as a priest read out a letter from Poland's bishops in favour Read more

Women stage church walkout in Poland over abortion laws... Read more]]> Groups of Catholic women walked out of Masses in two Polish cities to protest at a proposed tightening of the nation's abortion laws.

They walked out of churches in Warsaw and Gdansk.

At the Warsaw church of St Anna, the women shouted "scandal" as a priest read out a letter from Poland's bishops in favour of a total ban on abortion.

The conservative Law and Justice (PiS) party, which came to power in Poland last October, plans to tighten abortion regulations to bring them into line with the Catholic Church's teachings.

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