The Hungarian EU Presidency – From Reformed Perspective

The Reformed Church in Hungary had resolved to make considerable contributions to the work of Hungary’s rotating EU presidency – which has just ended – with an emphatic presence and the organisation of events related to the themes of the presidency.

08/07/2011

címkék: roma ministry, refeu2011

Churches contribute to European Roma strategies

The annual meeting of the networks of two European church organizations was held in Budapest from February 14 to 15. It was hosted by the Synod of the Reformed Church in Hungary.

21/02/2011

címkék: refeu2011

Gypsies in the history of Hungarian protestant churches

Not many of us are aware of the fact that the responsible participants of the Debrecen Synod (1567), an important event in the forming of the Hungarian Reformed Church1, already took the issue of Gypsies into consideration.

18/02/2011

címkék: roma ministry, refeu2011

Gypsies in Europe

In spite of what the public thinks, Gypsies have never really been a uniform group. What is more, they are not even likely to have been one people in the past – states Szilveszter Póczik, a historian-criminologist and the senior scientific representative of the Hungarian National Institute of Crimonology (OKRI).

11/02/2011

címkék: roma ministry, refeu2011

Our service for the Roma communities

The attitude of our churches towards Roma people is the same as towards any other group of people: they need to hear the message of the Gospel and experience the love of God in order to change and discover new meanings in their lives, and find their true self-identity through a relationship with God

28/01/2011

címkék: refeu2011