A Polish court has issued eviction notices to a group of rebellious nuns who have defied orders from the Catholic Church to leave the convent they have occupied for two years, court officials said on Monday.The 64 nuns took over the building in 2005, rejecting the Vatican's decision to replace their mother superior, who had taken decisions she said were based on religious visions and had upset other nuns.
The nuns and their superior in the southern city of Kazimierz Dolny have also ignored their expulsion from their order, the Sisters of the Family of Bethany.
But court officials said eviction notices had been sent to the nuns last week. A Franciscan friar who has been suspended for disobedience is also staying there with them.
"We will not wait any longer," Ewa Stepowicz-Lizut, the lawyer of the convent's order, told Reuters on Monday.
The building's electricity was cut off in April, but sympathisers from the town have continued to provide food and water under cover of darkness.
The nuns have on occasion thrown stones at journalists trying to speak to them.
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