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Polish Special Operations Forces: Role and Missions in Afghanistan

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Kuśmirek K.

The Polish Quarterly of International Affairs

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2015

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issue 3

31-38

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Polish Special Operations Forces have participated in missions abroad, for example, in Afghanistan. In the initial phase, special forces soldiers were assigned to the tasks that could be performed by conventional military units, such as protection of bases, but over time the situation changed. Their actions contributed to stabilising the situation in the region and indirectly resulted in increased international security. During the operations, soldiers released hostages and confiscated weapons. In this way they disrupted the opponent, because the losses incurred by terrorists led to the depreciation of the position of the leaders of the terrorist networks. In addition to special operations, soldiers were preparing “Afghani Tigers” officers to carry out activities independently, and to ensure safety after the coalition forces left the region. Cooperation of soldiers with the Afghan officers is the proof of success in building positive relationships. Implementation of special operations by special forces soldiers led to their gaining new experience, and to the modernisation of armaments and verification of procedures. The activities conducted proved that Polish special forces are a reliable partner.

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Leading Polish missionary journals during the Covid-19 pandemic, their functioning, message and realization of press functions

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Wrzos M.

Studia Theologica Varsaviensia

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2022

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vol. 60

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issue 1

91-110

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This research has confirmed the need for missionary periodicals on the Polish press market, which have specific tasks and functions to perform. Declining circulation should lead to some consolidation of press titles and to cooperation and raising the standard of individual titles. The period of the pandemic proved that the leading Polish missionary periodicals react quickly to the crisis situation, provide reliable and wide-ranging information about it, and in some titles this translates into an invitation to readers to commit themselves spiritually and materially to specific needs. From the course of the analyses carried out, we can verify the hypotheses or confirm the theses posed before the research began. Thesis 1. During the Covid-19 pandemic, the leading missionary journals carried out the press functions for which they were established - confirmed, although mainly in terms of information-publicity, fundraising and organising functions. Thesis 2. During the Covid-19 pandemic, the leading missionary magazines reported on the pandemic situation in mission areas and publicised the social campaigns that were being conducted - confirmed, although some titles more than others. Hypothesis 1. There is a deepening crisis of missionary journalism, in favour of missionary media communicating via the internet. It seems necessary to adapt different content to the two distinct target groups (audiences) - verified positively. Hypothesis 2. There is a need for change and centralisation on the market of missionary journalism - verified positively.

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The Mission of the Neocatechumenal Way in Times of Covid-19

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Gacka B.

Studia Theologica Varsaviensia

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2022

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vol. 60

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issue 1

37-50

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We know that there are many studies, many interpretations of the coronavirus, many scientists and politicians who are studying the coronavirus and its consequences in the aftermath of the pandemic. The Holy See has also set up a task force dedicated to this study: “To embrace hope, to embrace the human family.” On 20th March, 2020, Pope Francis asked the Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development (DSSUI) to create a Commission, in collaboration with other Dicasteries of the Roman Curia and other institutions, to express the Church's concern and love for the entire human family in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic, especially through the analysis and reflection on the socio-economic and cultural challenges of the future and the proposal of guidelines to address them. In 2020 Anne Case, the Professor of Economics and Publics Affairs at Princeton University, and Angus Deaton, winner of the 2015 Nobel Prize in economics, the Professor of Economics and International Affairs at Princeton University and Presidential Professor of Economics at the University of Southern California, have published their highly important book Death of Despair and the Future of Capitalism. Death of despair from suicide, drug overdose, and alcoholism are rising dramatically in the Western European countries and in the United States of America. In 2018, there were 158,000 deaths of despair in the US, the same number as in 2017. Deaths of despair is called by Anne Case and Angus Deaton the despair epidemic. Long before the arrival of COVID-19, the lives of European and Americans had been disintegrating with deaths from suicide, drug overdose and alcoholic liver disease rising year on year. The despair epidemic and the COVID epidemic make a challenge for American and European capitalism. “COVID is a worldwide pandemic, affecting rich and poor countries, while deaths of despair, although not exclusively American, are much more serious in the US than in other rich countries.” Why is capitalism failing so many? What’s the economy got to do with it? Could the reason for this phenomenon be hidden in a fragmented approach to the human person? Could it be that Capitalism does not pay attention to the true reality of the human person, who is at once, in his or her existence a unity of physiological (material), mental, and spiritual reality not fragmented? The human person whom an economy and indeed any business seeks to serve, is not only the exteriority but also the interiority at once. The person remains the subject of both experiences given from interior and from exterior. A concentration on both kinds of experience which in fact constitute the integral experience of the human person is called for. The same discernment is given by economist Anne Case and Nobel Prize winner Angus Deaton in their statement that “capitalism is an immensely powerful force for progress and for good, but it needs to serve people and not have people serve it.” The world is experiencing a catastrophe, thus according to Prof. Case and Prof. Deaton capitalism needs to be better monitored and regulated. Why is lack of religiosity and the decline in churchgoing a problem? One answer is that, over long enough periods of time, religiosity responses to the social and economic environment. In poor countries around the world, especially in Asia and Africa, almost everyone identifies as very religious, but religiosity is lower in richer industrialized countries, particularly in Western Europe. The argument ̶ the secularization hypothesis ̶ is that as education spreads, as incomes rise, and as the state takes over many functions of the church, people turn away from religion. Put crudely, people need religion more in more hostile environments. This would fit the American states, where those with lower incomes and less supportive state governments have a higher fraction of religious people. It would also explain why it is true that, while more religious people do better than less religious people on many outcomes ̶ they are happier, less likely to commit crimes, less likely to abuse drugs and alcohol, and less likely to smoke ̶ more religious places ̶ including US states ̶ do worse on the same outcomes. Religion helps people do better, and they espouse religion in part because their local environment is difficult. When religiosity falls over time, it is the people side of this story that applies, and people lose the benefits that religion brings. The mission families are grateful to Kiko Argüello and Carmen Hernández for the Neocatechumenal Way they have brought, which is an inestimable gift. According to the iniciators of the Way true communion goes further than any notion of time, place and danger. The mission families experienced this communion with power during this time of pandemic isolation. The growing apostolic faith is the concrete answer to the problems of our life in this time of Covid-19. The prophetic words of Pope Paul VI are realized particularly in the mission of the Catholic Church in times of Covid-19 within the Neocatechumenal Way. Saint Paul VI, in the audience to the Neocatechumenal Communities on 8th May, 1974, said: “We greet the group of priests and lay people who represent the movement of the Neocatechumenal Communities - here we see post-conciliar fruits! - gathered in Rome from many dioceses throughout Italy and other countries. […] How great is the joy, how great is the hope, which you give us with your presence and with your activity! […] To live and foster this re-awakening is what you call a kind of ‘post baptism’, which can renew in our contemporary Christian communities the effects of maturity and depth which were achieved in the early Church during the period of preparation for Baptism. You do this afterwards. `Before' or `after' is secondary, I would say. The fact is that you aim at the authenticity, fullness, coherence and sincerity of Christian life. And this is a very great merit which, I repeat, consoles us enormously.”

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We are becoming fewer, but: how should this happen? The "Catalyst Corona" and Contrary Scenarios of a Minority Christianity

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Loffeld J.

Studia Theologica Varsaviensia

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2022

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vol. 60

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issue 1

51-67

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“Seek the peace of the city” (Jer 29,7) Church practice after the serious case of public welfare-oriented probation in the pandemic

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Beck W.

Studia Theologica Varsaviensia

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2022

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vol. 60

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issue 1

7-19

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During the corona pandemic, pastoral practice and church proclamation show structural problems as well as new beginnings. The question is whether effects for a dynamic church development will emerge from them in order to find a stronger orientation of pastoral action towards the common good. Which social players enjoy priority and which areas of society are considered "nice to have" and thus dispensable, at least in times of crisis? This question pervades public debates throughout the multiple waves of the Corona pandemic: prioritising the allocation of vaccination appointments, prioritising the opening of shops and facilities, and prioritising the allocation of aid money and Corona Relief funds. Behind these decisions is the question of who is considered systemically important in modern societies and from whom contributions to the common good are to be expected.

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Mission in Covid and Post-Covid times in Germany

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Vellguth K.

Studia Theologica Varsaviensia

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2022

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vol. 60

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issue 1

79-89

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The presented aspects are divided into four parts: In a first step, I will take a general look at the course of the pandemic in Germany. In a second step, I will show what role the church played during the months of the pandemic. In a third step, I address pastoral observations on the mission of the church in Germany in times of the pandemic. And in a fourth step, I show what challenges the mission or pastoral care of the church in Germany faces after the pandemic.

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Mission in covid/post-covid times Drawing inspiration from pope Francis

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Catalano R.

Studia Theologica Varsaviensia

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2022

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vol. 60

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issue 1

21-36

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In Bergoglio’s thinking, to build on fraternity in order to create a culture of encounter and justice means to move together towards unity, which helps to be committed “to allow people to serve as a body despite differences of viewpoint, physical separation and human ego”.[1] This attitude and these commitments will prevent us from falling into uniformity while respecting the values and richness of plurality. In fact, in today’s world, while we are more and more interconnected we experience a deep sense of division, especially at the social and economic level. Our societies and communities are more and more fragmented and this creates dangerous polarizations, as it is seen in politics and social life. Fraternity will help to foster dialogue at all levels and this will enable people “to generate a shared horizon toward which we can all move forward together”.[2] This does not mean, in Pope Francis’ understanding, denying tensions and differences. It rather calls for the engagement of everyone and all communities to work for a wider unity where all differences remain and coexist while working together. This reading of the present reality can help us react to the pandemic as a people, as a whole humanity with its differences and riches. But we need the courage “to restore an ethics of fraternity and solidarity, regenerating the bonds of trust and belonging. For what it saves is not an idea but an encounter.” [1] Ibid., p. 68. [2] Ibid., p. 76.

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On Personal Security Issues of Soldiers from Polish Military Contingent in Iraq

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Żukowska I.

Security Dimensions: International & National Studies

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2016

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vol. 17(17)

42-54

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Going on a mission undoubtedly constitutes a real threat to the stability of a military family. The fact of being temporarily separated, together with all the related emotional problems, seem to cause a number of dysfunctions in the partners’ relations. The departure of the spouse for a mission is an important social phenomenon which creates a new situation in which the widely acknowledged patterns of family behavior do not guarantee the fulfillment of the family’s needs. Hence, there is a necessity to renegotiate family roles and their scope. In the families of soldiers who go on a mission it is the wife who takes over all the duties and the responsibility for the family’s general wellbeing. They have to face the dull reality: paying the bills, making renovations and bringing up children. When back home, the soldiers take over the man’s responsibilities. From one moment to the next, they have to became fathers, husbands and the heads of their families again. Unfortunately, it is difficult for both spouses to cope with such a situation.

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Identyfikacja i ocena strategii rynkowych deweloperów na wrocławskim rynku nieruchomości mieszkaniowych

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Kanak E.

Nauki o Zarządzaniu

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2014

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issue 2(19)

74-85

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For the development of developer enterprises it is essential to have properly formulated development strategies, including a mission, objectives, their methods of implementation and control. Empirical research was conducted among 37 Wroclaw developers. Methods that have been used are: an individual in-depth interview, a telephone interview and a direct observation. It was found that large development companies, with a complex organizational structure, more often formulate a mission than small entities with limited scale of operations. In addition, the market activities of Wroclaw developers, were mostly spontaneous, not showing deliberate and systematic behavior. The observation of the behavior of developers shows that only part of the companies planning new investments, carefully analyzes the market and buyers’ preferences, adapting their offer to the current situation on the market, while other companies base it on intuition or duplicate previous, proven implementations.

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PODEJŚCIE ZINTEGROWANE W REAGOWANIU KRYZYSOWYM

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Brylonek M.

Polityka i Społeczeństwo

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2014

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issue 4(12)

5-23 (19)

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Implementation of comprehensive approach in solving crisis situations is one of the challenges of the contemporary times. Experiences of the last two decades proved in multiple cases that crises’ counteraction can only be effective if both military and civilian capabilities have been employed, including diplomacy and various aid instruments. International organizations expect tangible results of conduct and engagement in peace-keeping and stabilization missions and operations, ensuring amelioration of the situation. A special role among civilian capabilities has been assigned to law and order forces, including police, gendarmerie and military police, more often constituting integral ele-ments of military-civilian operations or functioning in close cooperation with them. These formations can be deployed in many different ways, although they are most fre-quently used as executive, strengthening or substituting local police, or non-executive, conducting training and mentoring for the benefit of local law and order formations. As one of the most complex and multidimensional theatres of recent years, Afghan-istan is evolving, it is worth examining the subject matter of the implementation and execution of the comprehensive approach, as well as the missions and operations com-posed into the integrated effort of the international society for creation of safe and secure environment for the benefit of Afghan citizens.

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Tendencies in the EU’s Common Security and Defence Policy

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Brylonek M.

Internal Security

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2014

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vol. 6(1)

159-176

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The European Union member states decided to establish the European Security and Defence Policy in 1999. Soonafterwards, the processes of appointing adequate tools for its accomplishment started. Discussions were conducted and decisionswere made to create organs and institutions and to elaborate appropriate crisis management procedures which would enable fastand precise decision‑makingfor planning and conduct in the field of security and defence. Since that time the European Unionand its crisis management capacities had evolved in all fields. Nowadays, security scientists exert attempts to provide an answerto an important problem: in which direction the Common Security and Defence Policy is now progressing. The author, basing onhis experiences of work in politico‑strategicplanning structures of the European External Action Service and conducted research,concisely presented tendencies in the European Union’s Common Security and Defence Policy, among others with regard to evolutionof the Union’s organs and institutions, evolution of the crisis management procedures, assumptions and implementationof the comprehensive approach and characters of the newly‑deployedmissions. This material is a result of research conductedwithin an international and interinstitutional crisis management environment. It is based on conversations and interviews withsubject‑relatedpersonnel and the listed bibliography.

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The Right of Nations to Development and to Receive the Gospel by the Church’s Missionary Activity as a Reflection of Universal Human Rights

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Kasprzak S.

Roczniki Nauk Prawnych

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2017

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vol. 27

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issue 4 English Online Version

17-35

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The article addresses the importance of the Church’s missionary activity with respect to contemporary cultures and nations because she proclaims the Gospel and promotes the basic development in many corners of the world. By sending missionaries, the Church teaches the faith, Catechism, religious observances, life in accordance with the Commandments. She takes care of Christian formation of the faithful in a given particular Church. The Church organises pastoral and biblical apostolates in order to proclaim the light and hope of the Gospel in a way that is comprehensible to the modern man. It is argued in the article that the proper understanding of the missionary activity of the Church is essentially a realisation of universal human rights. The Church sees the need for respect of human rights on the part of world decision-makers; she appreciates the work of missionaries towards the good of nations and cultures, she sees a common denominator for evangelization and development of nations in terms of human rights. Provisions contained in covenants and treaties which guarantee the right to life and civilisational progress of all people are often disobeyed, therefore the Christ’s Church uses her authority to get involved in the process of evangelization activities and all types of activity intended to improve the communal life of people of good will.

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Misje wybranych banków z perspektywy koncepcji CSR

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Świeszcza M., Świeszczak K., University od Lodz, marika.swieszczak@uni.lodz.pl, krzysztof.swieszczak@uni.lodz.pl

Annales. Etyka w Życiu Gospodarczym

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2016

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vol. 19

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issue 3

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The way of functioning of commercial banks remained unchanged over the years – from the institutions involved in the distribution of financial products and services turned into organizations aspiring to the title of socially responsible entities. This means that its activities include the interests of many groups, such as customers, employees, shareholders, local communities and contractors. The result is those banks that want to be recognized as socially responsible, take numerous initiatives in areas not related to the sale, such as protection of the environment, voluntary or society. The directions of banks’ activity are determined by the key values, formulated in the mission, which defines the core of the organization and lets them stand out from the competitors. Institutions socially responsible also in this area should take into account the concept of CSR by pointing to various interest groups and taking various forms of activity. The aim of the publication is to analyse the content of the missions of selected commercial banks from the perspective of the various levels of responsibility and groups of interest. The article hypothesized that not all of the analysed commercial banks include in their missions the idea of corporate social responsibility, and those that do are limited to specific areas of action and specific stakeholder groups. The analysis was conducted on the basis of the contents available on the websites of the 10 largest financial institutions in Poland in terms of assets.

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Przeobrażenia w posłudze polskich braci oblatów na misjach w świetle artykułów publikowanych w dwumiesięczniku „Misyjne Drogi”

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Wrzos M.

Annales Missiologici Posnanienses

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2016

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issue 21

183-192

PL

The article analyzes the contents of the review „Misyjne Drogi”, published by the Polish MIssionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate, with special focus on the theme of Oblate Brothers and their participation in missionary works of the Congregation. The changing image of the ministry of brothers is described according to three periods: 1983-1994, 1995-2011, 2012-2015. The articles published during the first period spoke mostly about brothers performing auxiliary tasks of farmer, construction worker, nurse etc. As the years passed, the authors have focused more on the direct participation of Oblate brothers in the ministry of evangelisation, on equal terms with Oblate priests.

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Jaka strategia wobec Afganistanu?

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jurenczyk l.

Rocznik Bezpieczeństwa Międzynarodowego

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2013

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vol. 7

245-262

EN

In this article the author conducted an analysis of the effectiveness in the terms of poor performance of the ISAF mission. Simultaneously he provides recommendations for conditionswhich in his opinion should be established a peaceful and safe solution for country’s security environment . First of all, he emphasized the necessity and importance of the effort whichshould made by the international community in the area of common solidarity. In his opinion the termination of the mission by the end of 2014 is highly risky, and he recommends further deployment and an extension and expansion of troops size. He pointed out that the use of military lines of operation in the field of applications of lethal assets should be considered in the close relation to features of the asymmetric conflict of Afghan’s COIN strategy. In his opinion they should mainly focus on fighting Al-Qaeda’s militants and provide support to keep local population safe and secure. In addition, a powerful military component should play a role of a security provider to assist during the broad spectrum of the soft power non-kinetic activities i.e. humanitarian, economic, political and social ones. In accordance to the author’s research findings, the Taliban can only be defeated at the local level, therefore it seems necessary to establish security forces of local units doing their job in close cooperation with local authorities recognized by the local inhabitants. Such cooperation might be a way to solve problems and to meet the expectations of ordinary people without any harming of their will.The establishment of the safe and secure environment at the local level with truly formed ties with local community would be the first step to cut insurgents from the sources of logistic support and supply as well as the recruits draft from villages. It is also considered that the international community should concentrate their efforts to effectively prevent rebel forces from the external support mainly from neighboring Pakistan.

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Autor artykułu podejmuje się analizy przyczyn nieskuteczności misji ISAF w Afganistanie. Jednocześnie wskazuje warunki, jakie muszą zostać spełnione, aby można było zaprowadzićw kraju trwały pokój i bezpieczeństwo. Przede wszystkim akcentuje konieczność większej solidarności działań społeczności międzynarodowej. Poddaje w wątpliwość zasadność zakończenia misji ISAF do końca 2014 r. i postuluje jej przedłużenie, wraz ze zwiększeniem liczebności kontyngentów wojskowych. Wskazuje, że w aspekcie militarnym kluczowe jest odpowiednie dostosowanie działań kinetycznych do specyfiki asymetrycznego konfliktu afgańskiego. Mają się one koncentrować głównie na walce z Al-Kaidą i ochronie miejscowej ludności. Silny kontyngent wojskowy ma być elementem zabezpieczającym szeroko zakrojone przedsięwzięcia o charakterze niekinetycznym, tj. humanitarnym, gospodarczym, politycznym i społecznym. Jak twierdzi autor, talibów można pokonać jedynie na poziomie lokalnym, dlatego niezwykle ważne jest stworzenie lokalnych jednostek sił bezpieczeństwa, które byłyby ściśle powiązane z tamtejszymi instytucjami cieszącymi się legitymacja społeczną. Taka współpraca pozwoliłaby na trafne odczytywanie i realizację potrzeb społecznych, bez ryzyka godzenia w przekonania Afgańczyków. Zapewnienie bezpieczeństwa i pozytywna współpraca odcięłaby rebeliantów od głównego zaplecza logistycznego i rekrutacyjnego. Działania społeczności międzynarodowej muszą również zmierzać do efektywnego odcięcia rebeliantów od pomocy z zewnątrz, głównie z sąsiedniego Pakistanu.

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Odpuścić grzechy, zachować wiernych (J 20,23)

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Wojciechowska K.

Gdański Rocznik Ewangelicki

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2013

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vol. 7

195-206

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This article presents an exegesis of John 20:23: If you forgive people’s sins, their sins are forgiven; if you hold them they are held fast. Traditionally them refers to sins, and exegetical basis for this interpretation was reading John 20:23 (with the eliptical antithetical parallelism) as parallel of Matt 16:19 and 18:18. However the grammatical and lexical structure of John 20:23 suggests that v. 23a and 23b is a synthetic (progressive) parallel. In the Johannine com¬munities and in first three centuries of Christianity John 20:23 was not understood as the scriptural account of the institution of the sacrament of Penance that can only be administered by the ordained ministers. This text may be an allusion to baptism First of all, John 20:23 is a missionary command to the disciples. They have the power (v. 22: Receive the Holy Spirit) and right to preach the forgiveness of sins and entry into the community of believers (cf. Matt 28:19; Mark 16:16; Luke 24:47).

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Pariacoto - misja Braci Mniejszych Konwentualnych

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Gogola Z.

Folia Historica Cracoviensia

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2002

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vol. 8

EN

First traces of the Franciscan presence in Peru date back to 450 years ago. Father Marcos de Niza arrived in Peru with Francisco Pizarro's expedition. According to chronicles of 1532, he commenced his mission among local people together with twelve friars. In 1985 the General Curia of the Order of Friars Minor Conventual (OFMConv) in Rome prepared the project of founding a new Latin American mission post in Peru.

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Pierwsze ślady obecności franciszkanów w Peru pochodzą sprzed 450-ciu lat. O. Marcos de Niza przybył na te ziemie wraz z ekspedycją Francisca Pizarra. Według kronik w roku 1532 wraz z dwunastoma współbraćmi rozpoczął pracę misyjną wśród tutejszej ludności. W 1985 roku Kuria Generalna Zakonu Braci Mniejszych Konwentualnych OFMConv w Rzymie opracowała projekt założenia nowej placówki misyjnej w Ameryce Łacińskiej w Peru, w Pariacoto.

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Mojżesz w historii zbawienia

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Krawczyk R.

Studia Elbląskie

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2014

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vol. 15

105-116

EN

Moses is undoubtedly one of the greatest biblical figures. His life and the role he played in the history of ancient Israel are exceptional. The paper is an attempt at a synthetic presentation of Moses' role in the history of salvation. In the first part the author analyzes the description of the birth of Moses and his mission, contained in the Pentateuch. The secondpart focuses on the analysis of the elements that make up the historical value of this figure, and the third part contains the analysis of the theological aspect of parallelism between Moses and Jesus.

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Crisis management instead of peacekeeping: EU security law transformation in the context of Russian armed aggression in Ukraine

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Kresin O., Kresina I.

The Lawyer Quarterly

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2021

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vol. 11

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issue 1

29-49

EN

strategy, approaches to Eastern Europe and Ukrainian security issues, sanctions against Russia, EU missions to Ukraine. The object of the study is to distinguish and reconstruct the most important concepts underlying the security law of the EU, the legal ideology thereof and its implementation in the situation of Russian-Ukrainian armed conflict. The same way, the study provides a new key to understand the principal conceptual transformations of the international security law. The study shows that EU has implemented a wide range of non-military peacekeeping / anti-crisis instruments of its foreign policy in response to Russia’s armed aggression against Ukraine, in particular, political, diplomatic, economic, trade, civilian operational. And they should not be derogated. But, given the general features of the development of the Union’s foreign and security law and policy, there is no reason to expect that the Union will play a crucial role in restoring Ukraine’s territorial integrity. Instead, as the authors propose, the intentions, potential and tools of the EU’s “soft power”, including the potential of two functioning EU missions, should be fully exploited to de-escalate the crisis, enhance the resilience and economic development of the Ukrainian state, and manage conflicts in Ukrainian society. That could be the proper way to implement positively the new international security law paradigm potential.

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Towards a conception of the fundamental values of Catholic education: what we can learn from the writings of John Paul II

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Fincham D.

The Person and the Challenges. The Journal of Theology, Education, Canon Law and Social Studies Inspired by Pope John Paul II

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2012

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vol. 2

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issue 1

PL

This paper sets out to explore and examine online discussions of twenty-two students pursuing the M.A. programme in Catholic School Leadership at St Mary’s University College in Twickenham, London. In response to a question about the views of Blessed Pope John Paul II on the fundamental values of Catholic education, they shared their perceptions through online postings in a virtual learning environment (VLE). The focus of this paper is to draw inferences from the responses that they made.

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