Statistics collected over all of Polish territory in all the parishes during last three months of 2009 reveal a slow revival of frequenting the Mass in 2009, going from 40.5% of the country's 38 million inhabitants in 2008 to 41.5% in 2009. However, they confirm a "a slow but steady decline" in assistance at Mass in the country's 44 dioceses over the last decade, a decline that is as high as 9.2% in certain regions. Fr. Witold Zdaniewicz, director of the Polish Institute of Statistics, has specified that between 43% and 46% of Polish went to the church regularly during the period from 1991 – 2007, adding that if he guesses right the present tendency to drop will continue.
http://www.dici.org/en/news/poland-fewer-and-fewer-catholics-practicing/
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