Hospital chaplains and most of the staff of Bethesda Children's Hospital have already recieved their COVID-19 vaccine. Gyula Rideg, hospital chaplain at Bethesda, said he felt it's his responsibility to get vaccinated as he is working among patients.
“The consequence of forgiveness is that we can invite each other – into our congregations, our church and our Christianity” – said at his inauguration the Bishop of the Danubian Reformed Church District on January 25.
Since the cold season has started the Hungarian Reformed Church Aid launched its annual firewood program. The project has been supported by the Evangelical Church in Rhineland in the past years.
RCH joined the initiative of the Christian Solidarity International (CSI) urging to stop sanctions against Syria. Bishop István Szabó supports the appeal and signed the open letter to presidents of the US and the European Council.
The inaugural meeting of the new Synod and the election of the new Presidium of RCH will take place at the Károli Gáspár University of RCH, decided outgoing, continuing and incoming members of the Presidency Council.
“God’s love exceeds the limits of earthly life, and places every moment of our reality in the breadth of eternal life,” said József Steinbach, reformed Bishop and president of the Ecumenical Council at the opening service of the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity.
As we welcome the New Year 2021, we reflect on the events of 2020: we grieve our losses and give thanks for the blessings we experienced. For this occaison we collected the top articles and the most viewed videos of 2020 from our website.
Over the past year, we have had to face unexpected situations month after month, yet we have experienced that our Heavenly Father has not left us alone. Newly elected Lay Presidents of RCH about their hope for the year 2021.
The job is done well when refugee students are constantly starting classes and leaving. If the teaching is good, the acknowledgment is appreciated by the teacher. Inteview with Ákos Urbán, teacher at the Refugee Ministry.
The Reformed Christian Calvinist Church in Croatia opened their out of use parishes for the victim families of the earthquake in Petrinja. The Hungarian Reformed Church Aid (HRCA) launched a fundraising campaign to support reconstruction works.
Over the past year, we have had to face unexpected situations month after month, yet we have experienced that our Heavenly Father has not left us alone. Newly elected Bishops of RCH about their hope for the year 2021.
The Hungarian Reformed Church Aid (HRCA), in an ecumenical spirit, launched a fundraiser campaign to help survivors of the Earthquake in Croatia which was felt also in Hungary on 29 December.
Popular artists sent encouraging messages to thousands of kids and supported the fundraising campaign of the "Ark Camps" social incluson project of RCH for disadvantaged children.
"Do not worry, even if we are struggling in the arena, the angels barrack for us from the grandstand." Now he can meet and join them. Ferenc Szűcs, reformed pastor, Professor Emeritus of Systematic Theology, passed away at the age of 79 years.
RCH joined the initiative of the Karachi based Tehillim School of Church Music & Worship in partnership with the Presbyterian Church of Pakistan to support the reformed families in the country as they prepare for Christmas and witness about Christ's love for all.
RCH is preparing for Christmas with a unique virtual advent calendar. The short, heart-warming daily messages help people realize: even if they in physical distance from their loved ones and friends, they are not alone.
On December 16, 2020, His Holiness Patriarch Mor Ignatius Aphrem II received the keys of the building which the Government of Hungary gave to the Syriac Orthodox Patriarchate to administer as a Syriac Center for the period of 50 years.
In the past months congregations of the four Church Districts of RCH elected Bishops and Lay Presidents. The new Synod will be constituted on 17th February 2021 and will elect the Ordained and Lay President of RCH. All the candidates at a glance.
Parviz Khyber former client and than colleague of the Refugee Ministry and its implementing partner, the Kalunba Non-Profit was accepted to the expert group of the European Commission on the views of migrants on asylum and integration.