Fall Synod Report 2013

The fall meeting of the General Synod of the RCH began on 14 November in Budapest. Several topics were on the docket for the meeting, including the Roma action plan, the findings of the Church Revision Committee and a discussion on the implication of the Leuenberg Agreement on church legal documents.

18/11/2013

címkék: general synod, hungarian reformed church aid (hrca), church revision, fall, synod report, roma ministry, 2013

Learning from Roma Integration Initiatives in Hungary and Serbia

German politicians have traveled to Hungary to study existing Roma integration programs, because as the EU continues to expand east, large numbers of Roma are arriving in Germany, creating major integration challenges.

03/10/2013

címkék: roma ministry, EU, westphalia, partner, EU presidency

Reflections on Mission

Keith Kraft, a United Church of Christ pastor from the U.S., gives his reflection on the month spent alongside his wife Debbie at a summer camp for Roma in Csonkapapi, Ukraine. The camp provides weeklong programs from June through July for nearly 400 youth from several communities.

18/09/2013

címkék: roma ministry, mission, mission co-worker, ucc

A New Swiss-Hungarian Cooperation Is Born

It is an exciting time for the Reformed Church in Hungary and the Swiss Interchurch Aid. On Thursday, the two organizations took another step together strengthening their partnership with an agreement that focuses on Roma ministry in Hungary.

06/09/2013

címkék: agreement, roma ministry, HEKS

From South Dakota to Ukraine: UCC Pastor and His Wife Volunteering at Roma Camp

Keith Kraft, a United Church of Christ pastor from Mobridge, South Dakota (USA), arrived last week with his wife Debbie to serve at a summer camp for Roma children alongside Attila and Livia Tomes from the Reformed Roma Center in Csonkapapi, Ukraine.

18/06/2013

címkék: ucc, mission

A Step Toward Reconciliation

It is fitting that the RCH's Roma Council is meeting to debate its Roma Concept today, 8 April, because it coincides with the International Roma Day. It is a day to celebrate Roma culture but also draw attention to continued discrimination that the Roma community faces.

08/04/2013

címkék: roma ministry, roma council, concept

Director of Reformed Roma Collegium Honored with Wallenberg Award

Anikó Uhrin, Director of the István Wáli Reformed Roma Collegium, is among the most recent recipients of the annual Wallenberg Award, presented to individuals whose life and work is dedicated to helping those living in discrimination.

28/01/2013

címkék: holocaust, raoul wallenberg, Wallenberg Award, uhrin anikó

Ministry among the Roma - Interview with Attila Landauer, Gypsy Studies Specialist

In Hungary, Roma communities have been an inseparable part of society for centuries and in the life of churches, service among Roma has always primarily meant spreading the Gospel. Interview with Attila Landauer, national coordinator of Roma ministry of the RCH.

10/12/2012

címkék: roma ministry, interview

Gypsies in Europe

In the following interview Szilveszter Póczik, historian-criminologist and the senior scientific representative of the Hungarian National Institute of Crimonology (OKRI), attempts to throw light on the differences and similarities between Gypsies living in Eastern and Western Europe.

04/07/2012

címkék: roma ministry

A New Reformed Collegium for Roma Students in Debrecen

The István Wáli Reformed Roma Collegium, which currently hosts 16 students, officially started its operation in September 2011. The Collegium was established as part of the Christian Roma Collegium Network to provide Roma students participating in higher education with accommodation, mentoring and additional courses to complement their school studies.

19/06/2012

címkék: istvan wáli roma collegium, roma ministry

Roma are by far not a Homogeneous Group

This article contains some of the most thought provoking excerpts from a two-part interview with Pál Nagy, historian and scientific consultant at Szent István University in Gödöllő, Hungary.

19/06/2012

címkék: roma ministry, interview

No Life is Barren – a Reformed Roma Mission conference

The dialogue between cultures, the role of education in integration, the relationship of church and the Roma community, as well as job creation were among the topics discussed by the participants of the Roma mission consultation held at the Budapest office of the Reformed Church of Hungary.

08/07/2011

címkék: roma ministry, refeu2011

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