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An Interview with Rev. Zoltán Vass, Minister of the Reformed Church in Toronto

An in-depth interview with Zoltán Vass, son of a Transylvanian minister, who emigrated from Transylvania, Romania to America, initially to New York, then Hollywood, ultimately settling in Toronto 29 years ago as the minister of the First Hungarian Reformed Church….
A photograph of Balatonkenese Reformed pastor Gyula Czakó (ca. 1910)

How the Distinctive Clothing of Hungarian Reformed Ministers Took Shape and Changed During the Centuries — Part VII

The question of what kind of apparel Reformed ministers should wear was still not fully resolved by the beginning of the 20th century. A weekly titled Lelkészegyesület (Clergy Association), launched in 1908, dedicated twenty-five articles, announcements, appeals, and comments to…
Protestant pastor Péter Balogh, Bishop of the Transtibiscan Diocese, in 1860

How the Distinctive Clothing of Hungarian Reformed Ministers Took Shape and Changed During the Centuries — Part VI

At the beginning of the 19th century, the idea of unification between the Roman Catholic and Protestant Churches came to the fore, and Protestants who sympathized with this idea tried to make it even more visible to the public by…
18th century Hungarian Lutheran pastor Mátyás Bél

How the Distinctive Clothing of Hungarian Reformed Ministers Took Shape and Changed During the Centuries — Part V

In the struggle for survival and existence of Protestants, the question of ministers’ clothing still remained an issue—the meetings of the Reformed church districts of the time continued to fight against excesses….
Children waving LGBT flags at the Gay Pride March in Toulouse, France in 2011.

Fidesz, Child Protection and the Left

‘This scandal is a self-inflicted catastrophe for Fidesz. The prime minister plainly understands this, and is taking concrete steps to reform. Yet the idea that the political and cultural Left in Hungary is trying to capitalize on this crisis to…
Protestant preachers as galley slaves in the port of Naples.

How the Distinctive Clothing of Hungarian Reformed Ministers Took Shape and Changed During the Centuries — Part IV

The second half of the 17th century was a time of great hardships for Protestants: Protestant church history calls the years between 1671 and 1681 the ‘decade of mourning’. Thanks to some illustrated works by pastors freed from galley slavery,…

‘The Hungarian revolution of 1956 became a part of me’ — An Interview with Edith K. Lauer, Chair Emerita of the Hungarian American Coalition 

‘While establishing the Coalition in the early 1990s, I often tried to look at issues through the “other lens”. If something works in the US, why not try it in Hungary? And if it works in Hungary, why not try…
Martin Luther hammers his 95 theses to the door by Ferdinand Pauwels (1872).

Reformation Day — The Message of ‘Semper Reformanda’

Protestantism has been inextricably intertwined with Hungarian national consciousness and thirst for freedom. The Hungarian Protestant Bible translators made the Scripture accessible to Hungarians in their mother tongue, and also contributed to the development and preservation of the language. Practising…
István Tisza, leader of the National Party of Work gives an electoral speech in Sopron in April 1910.

The ‘Iron Earl’: The Life and Political Credo of István Tisza

Count István Tisza is still blamed by liberal and left-wing historiographers for Hungary entering WWI, despite clear evidence of his anti-war stance. It is rather anachronistic to hold Tisza to democratic standards that did not exist at the time and…
The Bread of Hungarians baked by the Hungarian American community in Washington DC to mark 20 August.

Washington Hungarians Celebrate 20 August with ‘Bread of American Hungarians’

The Kossuth Foundation, the organiser of the 20 August event, joined the ‘Bread of Hungarians’ programme this year, through which wheat from various parts of the Carpathian Basin made their way to the American capital, symbolising the unity of Hungarians…

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