Overview

• Poland officially reinstated border checks with Germany on July 7 in response to rising irregular migration and Germany’s return of asylum seekers.
• Bishop Wieslaw Mering claimed the country was governed by those “who call themselves German,” framing the controls as a defense against Western threats.
• Bishop Antoni Dlugosz urged prayers for volunteer border guards affiliated with right-wing militias operating along the frontier.
• Warsaw’s Foreign Ministry described the bishops’ rhetoric in a letter to the Vatican’s protocol office as injurious and unacceptable, urging sanctions under the 1993 concordat.
• The Holy See has yet to respond to the official complaint, leaving church-state tensions unresolved as paramilitary presence continues at the border.