Polish president Andrzej Duda has asked Church leaders in England to help protect Polish migrants from xenophobic violence and abuse.
He wrote to say that reports of serious attacks on migrants “have caused deep concerns to the Polish nation in general, and to myself in person”.
Such attacks included the murder of Arkadiusz Jozwik, 40, who was beaten to death in Harlow last month.
Mr Duda urged Cardinal Vincent Nichols of Westminster, president of the Bishops’ Conference of England and Wales, and the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Most Revd Justin Welby, to do whatever they could at the parish level to prevent such violence.
