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Beata Bruggeman-Sekowska On 6 September 2025, the beatification of Bishop and martyr Fr. Eduard Profittlich, S.J., took place in Tallinn. He is the first person ever beatified from Estonia, yet his life also shows deep ties with both Limburg in the Netherlands and Poland. From a farming family to the Jesuits Eduard Profittlich was born […]
Beata Bruggeman-Sekowska Forty years have passed since the death of Enver Hoxha (April 11, 1985, in Tirana, aged 76). For more than four decades, he ruled Albania with an iron hand, isolating the country from the rest of the world, enforcing strict ideological control and plunging Albania into extreme poverty. His 40-year rule made him […]
By Beata Bruggeman-Sekowska 65 years ago on the 28 June of 1956, at 6 a.m. Poznań ( city in the western part of Poland) riots started at the multifactory complex of Joseph’s Stalin’s (or ‘Cegielski’s) Metal Industries. Approximately 100,000 people gathered in the city centre near the local Ministry of Public Security building demanding better […]
How the Poles saved Europe from the Red Army a century ago Patrick van Schie In Western Europe it is perhaps one of the least known battles of the twentieth century, yet one of the most important turning points: the battle of Warsaw in August 1920. Unexpectedly, the young republic of Poland defeated […]
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