A Polish priest is using an electronic fingerprint reader in church for schoolchildren to prove they are attending mass.
The pupils’ fingerprints will be recorded every time they go to church over three years: if they attend 200 masses, they don’t have to pass an exam before their confirmation.
Children in Poland’s southern town of Gryfow Slaski said they liked the idea and also the priest, Grzegorz Sowa, who invented it.
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