What can we do when we are overwhelmed by self-pity and anger in a vulnerable situation? This was a central question at a conference organized for Christian women from war-torn countries who gathered in Lebanon to encourage each other. Conversation with Tímea Tövissi, a woman minister from Trancarpathia, Ukraine.
In a worship service, the Christian congregation in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, whose seventy members were abducted and murdered for their faith in February, thanked the Reformed Church in Hungary and the Hungary Helps Agency for their joint support.
"For us in Hungary today, martyrdom, the witness that we can lay down our lives for the cause of Jesus Christ in a given situation, is unknown, and that is why we have great respect for those Christians who remain believers in Christ even in the most difficult circumstances," said Bishop József Steinbach, Ministerial President of the Synod, on Wednesday, 9 April, at the Ráday House in Budapest, where the Presidium of the Reformed Church in Hungary met with a delegation of Congolese Christians helped by the Church and the "Planetrise" (Földkelte) Association for Culture and Environmental Protection.