Representatives of the most important global religions debated for three days in Cracow during the international „People and Religion” congress. The congress’ organization was initialized jointly by the Italian Sant’Egidio Community and the Cracow Archdiocese. Event-factory provided technical and logistic support for selected events during the congress.

Over 500 honored guests representing various denominations and religions such as Judaism, Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism and many less known and less proliferated such as Jainism, Parsism, Shintoism as well as clerics from the Catholic Orthodox, Catholic and other eastern churches arrived in Cracow to take part in the event. The creator of this groundbreaking concept was John Paul II, who in 1986 orchestrated the first meeting of world religions which took place in Assisi. The organization of the Cracow congress is to tie in to this momentous event and call on the spirit of dialogue and ecumenism. The meeting confirmed the major role played by such events and congresses in the struggle for peace and global dialogue. Apart from clerics and dignitaries representing various churches, Cracow was also visited by 2000 young people from around the world, including the United States, Canada, Great Britain, Japan and India. These young people, as well as politicians, scientists and journalists met at this event to discuss the social and cultural problems of today’s world and the role of religion in solving them. The congress was inaugurated with Mass at the Sanctuary of Divine Mercy in Łagiewniki. The official opening ceremony took place at the Auditorium Maximum of the Jagielonnian University, where 1000 people participated in the conference session. Over the next several days over 20 conference panels were organized at various Cracow locations, both in religious and ŚWIECKI venues.

The last day of the meeting was reserved for a visit to Oświęcim, where a March of Memory was held at the former Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp. The congress was closed with a meeting at the Main Square which was combined with a Call for Peace 2009.

Cracow is an ever more popular congress tourism destination on the world map. Despite the still serious shortcomings of the hotel base as well as the lack of a large conference center, Cracow is a very important location for organizing events of this type not only in Poland but also in Europe. The year 2009 has been very special for event-factory as far the number of projects such as the organization and servicing of congresses; suffice to mention such projects as the NATO defense minister ‘s conference or the organization of the Karcher World Congress. Despite the widely publicized global crisis the organization of company events, conferences and conventions by the event-factory agency is doing very well. Maybe this „global crisis pandemic” will have beneficial results, because even though such services in Poland have reached the highest level of quality and meet all global standards, they have not yet reached European level process. We are still less expensive. And this is also a source of the success of the business tourism industry in Poland during the global crisis. Corporations wishing to save money organize their conventions and company meetings or vents in Poland, and especially in Cracow, and hopefully as frequently as possible at event-factory, where at an optimal cost level they have a maximum effect guarantee.