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'Fear of unknown' leads to culture clash A mosque is under construction in the hills around Wilno. It's causing concern in Canada's cradle of Polish Catholicism Kelly Egan The Ottawa Citizen Monday, January 28, 2002 In the newly fallen snow, along Old Barry's Bay Road, the sacred sentinels are freshly cast in white on the edge of the woods, silently expressing a people's weathered endurance. There is a plaster Jesus, encircled with plastic lilies and sheltered in a wooden hollow, and Mary, a giant silhouette in steel, and, farther along, Mary and the baby Jesus together, in a locked glass ...

Two Sides of the Same Coin 15 December 2004 Zygmunt Błażejewicz and Tadeusz Cynkin—soldiers on opposite sides of the front line in World War II—are part of Poland’s complicated past. Both men were linked to cities belonging to Poland at the time, in its eastern borderland: Błażejewicz to Vilnius and Cynkin to Lviv. Both took part in the fighting of 1939, two of many defenders against German and Soviet aggression when, after Sept. 17, 1939, both Vilnius and Lviv were invaded by the Red Army. ■ War paths Błażejewicz avoided arrest and fought from 1943 in a unit led by...