The main religion in Poland is Catholicism, as approximately 95 percent of the population is Catholic. There are four branches of Catholicism in Poland: Byzantine-Ukrainian, Neo-Uniate, Armenian and Roman Catholic. read more
When Poland lost its independence to foreign invaders in 1795, Poles were subjected to religious discrimination in the expanded Germany and Imperial Russia. Prior to Second World War there were 3,500,000 Jews in the Polish Second Republic, about 10% of the general population, living predominantly in the cities. read more