Poland's religious right digs in heels over divisive cross

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Politics | 12.08.2010

Religious supporters of late president Lech Kaczynski stand guard over a cross set up as a memorial, despite pleas from church officials. Secularists demand it be taken away from the presidential palace.

Supporters of late Polish President Lech Kaczynski's Law and Justice Party have remained defiant in their vigil at the site of a cross erected in memory of their late hero - despite calls from church leaders to allow its removal. snip

Church officials have said that it is time for supporters to give up the fight - warning that they are being manipulated for political, not religious, reasons.

"To all those who pray at the cross we must say that - despite their good intentions - they are being exploited for political purposes. We urge everyone to make the transfer of the cross possible," press secretary for the Polish Episcopate, Bishop Stanislaw Budzik, told reporters in Warsaw on Thursday