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Poland has earned a reputation as one of the nations of Europe with the maximum religious tolerance. Poland religion is therefore not restricted to a single religion. Anyone can find the traces of Islam, Judaism, Buddhism, Hinduism, Roman Catholicism in Poland. The historical record says that the population of the Jewish in Poland was nearly three million prior to the World War II when Poland regained its independence.
But the scenario of Poland religion changed considerably after the World War II. Nearly 90% of the Polish Jewish were executed by the Nazi Germany during the Holocaust. Since the completion of World War II the religion in Poland has been dominated by a single religion. As per the 2006 International Religious Freedom Report by the U.S. Department of State, an excess of 96 percent of the Polish population was recorded to be Roman Catholics. But of all the recorded Roman Catholics, about 80% regularly attend the churches. The rest of the population are believers in Eastern Orthodox, Protestants, Jehovah's Witnesses and various minority religions.
After the termination of the World War II, the Jewish population declined steeply. The other religious groups who declined significantly
included Protestants, Greek Orthodox and a few others. The Roman Catholicism in Poland had always served as a major link between the religious belief and the nationality. Henceforth, there was negligible effect on the Polish citizen's practice of organized religion even after the advent of communism in Poland. Even during the communist regime, the Catholic Church continued to be the teacher of the moral values. After the decline of the communist era, Poland regained its tradition as a nation of religious tolerance.
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