Gina Lipka is one of many polls abandoning Catholicism's something she says is a political statement.

The 35 year old has marked many of life's milestones in the church, considered a symbol of freedom in communist times.

But in November, Poland's courts pushed through a sweeping clampdown on abortion that bishops had lobbied for.

Her main concern is one shared with many other young people that the church's influence is reaching further into other areas of life.

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I just didn't take part in the life of the church.

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But when I started to hear hate speech directed at non heteronormative people, E began thinking, I need to speak up against what was happening.

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Poland has seen a growing number of its 32 million Catholics turning away.

Church officials stopped collating data on defections in 2010, so there is no nationwide total.

But in Warsaw, more people filed to quit last November than in all of 2019 on the 577.

Applications to renounce between January and mid December were nearly double the 2019 figure.

There's the Trofimoff moment, monster.

It's a turning point for Poland.

We are born Catholic in Poland, almost all of us.

You're my sister.

A farm off the way.

Keep being Catholic as a result of tradition.

Habit, pressure from families.

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Um, in reality, what we are doing is helping the church game privileges, ma, by taking part in the life of the church.

Also, despite the fact that at the end of the day, we do not really believe consistent vision to the relationship between church and state in Poland is supposed to be independent and autonomous.

But many polls say this is not the reality where it is.

Research shows that in more than 140 cases over the last five years, priests have displayed election posters on parish property or discussed elections during Mass almost always in favor of the governing party.

The Polish Bishops Conference, which represents the church in Poland, declined to comment on the clergy's role in political campaigning on the government, said it remained impartial towards religious belief on protected freedom of religion.