Roma Ministry: Frequently Asked Questions

Where do reformed Roma live? Gypsies don’t have a unified religion. They generally adopt the dominant religion of their location, hence all the types of Roma living in Hungary, for example in Bulgaria both Christians and Muslims can be found.

2014. augusztus 7.

Steps Toward Social Inclusion

The HEKS Regional Partner Meeting of Eastern Europe and Western Balkans was organised in Kosovo and Serbia on inclusion of Roma, Ashkali and Egyptians, where the Reformed Church in Hungary was represented by the Roma Mission Office.

2014. július 2.

Honey Can Move Mountains

Christians never fight for causes which are completely lost, since with their faith in God they can change the world. This story is about the creativity of a community surrounded by hopelessness in Northeastern Hungary.

2014. május 7.

Roma Mission Hosts National Gathering and Day of Prayer

Focusing on “Reconciliation – Wholeness – and Hope,” several hundred people gathered from across Hungary and from Subcarpathia for a national Roma mission Day of Prayer and sharing. Most of the attendees were Roma, with some non-Roma Hungarians and foreign volunteers present.

2014. április 23.

What's a day worth?

In only a few minutes, volunteers of the “A way toward life” program – doctors and nurses of the Bethesda Hospital and co-workers of the Reformed Mission Centre – experienced fragments of lives during their mission, when they examined more than 1,000 people in 14 disadvantaged towns within the framework of a free check-up program.

2014. április 9.

Supporting Roma Mission

To understand more about the collaboration between HEKS and the RCH, we spoke with Project Coordinator Petra Dienes about the details of the "Country Program," which focuses on support through the “strengthening of congregations to foster and cooperate with Roma children and young persons.”

2014. március 10.

Spotlight on Partnership

Partnership is an invaluable asset for today’s global church, but it is also a broad term that encompasses many different forms of agreement and cooperation. Never is this more evident than the partnership between the Reformed Church in Hungary and Global Ministries in the USA.

2014. február 4.

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.

2013. november 18.

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.

2013. október 3.

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.

2013. szeptember 18.