Pastor Paweł Chojecki has been conducting a unique task in Catholic Poland for years, the intent of which is to show the relation of God and the Bible with past and politics. As a result, tens of thousands of Poles heard the gospel, and hundreds converted and strengthened many Protestant churches. By this, the pastor brought on the wrath of both Catholic hierarchs, who present in Poland are losing the faithful and communists and their supporters in the authorities of Poland, who do not want a conscious anti-communist society. tv punishment Go Under the Current of Pastor Chojecki demanded a press organ related to the Communist organization of China – Global Times. Shortly thereafter, the prosecution led by a Catholic minister favoring China secretly began collecting “hooks” on the pastor and accused him of bizarre “crimes”. The first conviction was given on June 10, 2021, and the appeal proceeding of Pastor Chojecki was set for November 22.
Paweł Chojecki is the pastor and founder of the fresh Covenant Church in Lublin, as well as the creator and editor-in-chief of television, magazine and publishing home “Go Under the Current”.
Since the 1980s, erstwhile he was inactive a student, he has been active in the fight against communism, not only in Poland but besides in another countries. In 2018, Pastor Chojecki for supporting Taiwan in the fight against Communist China received individual thanks from Taiwan's president Tsai Ing-wen.
"We have noticed that many people usage the hashtag #SayYesToTaiwan to show their support for Taiwanese democracy. Thank you! At a time erstwhile the values we value together are contested, we proceed to build a more democratic world. We invitation you, visit Taiwan to get to know free and open society" – wrote about the tv action Go Under Current office spokesperson president of Taiwan.
Taiwan presidential palace about action Go Under Current #SayYesToTaiwan!
Two years later, in 2020, after winning the election, Taiwan's president Tsai Ing-wen again thanked for her support from abroad friends specified as Pastor Paweł Chojecki and tv Go Under Current.
President of Taiwan @iingwen Thank you, Pastor Chojecki. @PastorChojecki environment @idzpodprad For the support from abroad friends!#SayYesToTaiwan@TW_nextmedia@MOFA_Taiwan@TaiwanPresSPOX@haniashen @HongKongFP @PAPinformation@michalrachon@KurierWnet#IPPTVTaiwanpic.twitter.com/ZQvO7K8cdw
— Go Under the Current (@idzpodpradpl) February 11, 2020
The same year, after the outbreak of a Chinese virus pandemic, the tv Environment Go Under the Current along with red. Hanna Shen of Taiwan collected 100,000 required signatures under petition to the American president for damages from Communist China for spreading the coronavirus. Solomon Yue, head of the Republicans abroad, a associate of the U.S. National Republican organization Committee who said on IPP TV: “I remind you that you on the website “We the People” started a petition to the White home to bring the Communist organization of China to account. You've been successful. This is simply a very crucial petition for 2 reasons. Firstly, free people acted together to draw fascists from the Communist organization of China to responsibility. Secondly, this gives us the chance to request compensation for the Wuhan virus for our country, for our nation."
The free, anti-communist activity of Pastor Paweł Chojecki was noticed by the largest anti-communist organization in the planet – John Birch Society. In 2018 Pastor Chojecki on the 60th anniversary of JBS gave 2 lectures on the past of Poland and the contemporary fight against communism and the incredible success of tv Go Under the Current.
As it is easy to guess, the activities of Pastor Chojecki and Go Under the Current were besides noticed by Chinese communists. In September 2019, in the center of Warsaw, Chinese attacked representatives of the tv Go Under Current, who protested under the KPCh embassy, where the 70th anniversary of the communist Chinese uprising was celebrated.
A year earlier, in 2018, after the media action “Say Yes to Taiwan” launched by the environment Go Under the Current, the press body of the Communist organization of China, Global Times, requested explanations from the Polish Embassy in Beijing, afraid that Poland can support Taiwan's independence. In consequence to the force of Chinese communists, the Polish Embassy issued a message saying:
We kindly inform that due to the appearance on 30.10.2018 in Chinese media space of articles and comments on the YouTube channel "Go Under Current TV" – The Polish Embassy in Beijing has issued a message for media curious in the following content:
Poland was 1 of the first countries in the planet to recognise the PRC in October 1949 and has since consistently followed the rule of "one China" in its policy.
The Polish Embassy does not comment on the activities of YouTube users, as the constitutional rule of freedom of expression applies in Poland.
The trial of Pastor Paweł Chojecki
For respective years, the alleged hooks were collected. all minute of live programs were interrogated with the pastor and his sermons in the Protestant church. Out of the contexted sentences, the prosecutor's office in December 2020 presented allegations of insulting spiritual feelings of Catholics, insulting Catholic spiritual objects, praising the initiation of an assault war against Communist North Korea (sic!) and insulting the Polish Nation and the president of the Republic of Poland.
The trial was a farce. Hearers who attack and insult Protestant Christians are presented in court as hurt Catholics. The judgement of the first instance was based on the expert opinion – Dr. Elżbieta Przybył-Sadowska from the Institute of spiritual Studies of the Jagiellonian University. The expert admitted that the statements of Pastor Chojecki were included in the Protestant-Catholic spiritual dispute standards, however, she found crimes in the form and kind of sermons. The problem is that in this area Prof. Przydło-Sadowska is not an expert. As a spiritual scholar, he specializes in the past of Orthodox churches...
On the another hand, opinions of experts appointed by the pastor's lawyer, Mr Andrzej Turczyn, including 3 professors (Prof. Tadeusz Bartosz – erstwhile Dominican priest, philosopher, theologian, Prof. Krzystof Kilian – philosopher, prof. Kazimierz Jodkowski – philosopher of science), were rejected by the court.
On 10 June 2021, the Lublin territory Court sentenced Pastor Paweł Chojecki to 8 months of restrictions on freedom in the form of social work 20 hours a period and reimbursement of the costs of the trial – over PLN 20 thousand.
In consequence to the court's judgment, 4 appeals were made: 3 in the defence of Pastor Paul Chojecki and 1 filed by the prosecutor, who is demanding a suspended prison sentence. According to her, only prison sentences and fines will let for the appropriate implementation of preventive and educational targets for the pastor "and will take due account of the request to form public legal awareness".
After a year and a half after the judgement of the Lublin territory Court, the deadline for appeal was set – 22 November 2022.
A well-known writer Eliza Michalik, writer for Onetu, stated that “the case of Pastor Paweł Chojecki is an highly shocking case and the litmus paper of democracy!”.
Joe Łosiak and Pastor Paweł Chojecki at the IPP tv headquartersJoe Łosiak, an American missionary of Polish origin, co-founder of the success of the ozone movement, an associate of Fr Franciszek Blachnicki, wrote:
"Pastor Pawł Chojecki is facing 5 years in prison in Poland for historical criticism of the Roman Catholic Church in his sermons. If this effort to silence and censor the pastor's sermons is successful, it will greatly harm Christ's origin and will inactive keep millions in the dark. The first critic of churches in the planet was the Lord Jesus Christ himself in Matthew 7:21-23 and the first 3 chapters of Revelation. You must besides silence the apostles in the fresh Testament: Peter, Paul, James, John, and Judah. Hus was burned by the city council. Luther besides insulted politicians and priests. Jesus insulted spiritual and government authorities. I'm raised in America, and it's different here. God and nation are not the same. Jesus was crucified due to the fact that he offended the spiritual feelings of the Jews who had the fact but disagreed with Jesus.”
Pastor Paweł Chojecki asks for prayer – not for a just judgment, which he does not anticipate in Catholic-socialist Poland, but for this shameful origin to aid spread the gospel of free salvation in Jesus and to snatch millions of Poles out of ignorance and superstition.
Who is Pastor Paweł Chojecki
