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Hungarian Reformed Minister’s Association
2011 Annual Conference
Bethlen Home, Ligonier, Pennsylvania

Dear Friends,

The 2011 Annual Conference of The Hungarian Reformed Ministers’ Association will be held at the Bethlen Communities Conference Room in Ligonier, Pennsylvania on Monday and Tuesday, 29th and 30th of August, 2011.

The Conference will start with a worship service with holy communion at 11 am on Monday.

Speakers will be:
Rev. Eric O. Springsted, seminary professor from the Princeton Theological Seminary and Rev. Laszlo Ujj from the Trenton Hungarian Reformed Church.

Rev. Ujj is finalizing the programs and agenda, and invitations will be forthcoming.

If you have any questions, please call Rev. Ujj, president at 609-396-9751

Rev. Zsolt Otvos
Secretary

23rd weekly media review of hungarian communities abroad:

-Trianon anniversary – Day of National Cohesion
-Centre and Research Institution
-The Government is committed to the cause of national minorities in Hungary
-Keep calm and carry on
-Electronic census closed
-Collective minority rights at no circumstance
-Diplomatic Note for Hungary
-Kiev: dual citizenship does not constitute a problem’
-Conference on scientific cooperation
-Hungarian Identity conference in Canada

The 73rd Annual Synod of the Calvin Synod convened in Ligonier, PA today on Tuesday, May 17th, 2011.

Synod began with a Service of the Word and Holy Communion at 9AM in the chapel at Bethlen Communities.

At 2PM on the same day the Synod entered its normal deliberations.

WORLD CONGRESS OF FAMILIES CALLS HUNGARY’S PRO-LIFE/PRO-MARRIAGE CONSTITUTION – A TRIUMPH FOR HUMAN RIGHTS AND THE FAMILY

World Congress of Families Managing Director Larry Jacobs called Hungary’s new Constitution “a triumph for human rights and the family.”

The Constitution, signed by Hungarian President Pal Schmitt late last month, states in Article 2 that “The life of the fetus will be protected from conception.” It also defines marriage as the union of a man and a woman.

Jacobs noted: “The Constitution’s drafters were right to invoke St. Stephen, Hungary’s patron saint. As King Stephen, it was he who firmly established Christianity in the nation This Constitution reflects the Judeo-Christian principles on which Western civilization is based, including the sanctity of life and the natural family.”

The WCF Managing Director further observed that Hungary’s new Constitution is in keeping with the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948), which dictates that “the family in the fundamental group unit of society and is entitled to protection by society and the State” and gives men and women “the right to marry and found a family.”

With a fertility rate of only 1.4 (average number of children per woman) – and a rate of 2.1 needed just to replace current population — it’s clearly in Hungary’s national interest to protect the lives of all of its citizens, including unborn children. Every abortion brings Hungary that much closer to national extinction.

Jacobs urged the people of Hungary to “stand firm in their commitment to life and the family, in what’s sure to be a relentless onslaught from the anti-family left – European Union and United Nations bureaucrats, as well as the organized pro-abortion and homosexual ‘rights’ movements.” Jacobs told the Hungarian people, “Justice, history and natural law are on your side.”

World Congress of Families is sponsoring the first international conference to deal with the worldwide decline in birthrates, the “Moscow Demographic Summit: Family and the Future of Humankind,” June 29-30. Click here (www.worldcongress.ru) for more information.

To learn more about World Congress of Families, click here: www.worldcongress.org. To schedule an interview with Larry Jacobs contact Don Feder at dfeder@rcn.com or call 508-405-1337.

The World Congress of Families (WCF) is an international network of pro-family organizations, scholars, leaders and people of goodwill from more than 60 countries that seek to restore the natural family as the fundamental social unit and the ‘seedbed’ of civil society (as found in the UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights, 1948). The WCF was founded in 1997 by Allan Carlson and is a project of The Howard Center for Family, Religion & Society in Rockford, Illinois. To date, there have been five World Congresses of Families – Prague (1997), Geneva (1999), Mexico City (2004), Warsaw, Poland (2007) and Amsterdam, The Netherlands (2009). World Congress of Families VI will be held in Madrid, Spain in May 25-27, 2012.

The World Congress of Families (WCF) is an international network of pro-family organizations, scholars, leaders and people of goodwill from more than 60 countries that seek to restore the natural family as the fundamental social unit and the ‘seedbed’ of civil society (as found in the UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights, 1948). The WCF was founded in 1997 by Allan Carlson and is a project of The Howard Center for Family, Religion & Society in Rockford, Illinois. To date, there have been five World Congresses of Families – Prague (1997), Geneva (1999), Mexico City (2004), Warsaw, Poland (2007) and Amsterdam, The Netherlands (2009). World Congress of Families VI will be held in Madrid, Spain in May 25-27, 2012.

Under Communist rule, abortion in Hungary was easily available and decimated the indigenous Hungarian population.
This represents a trend seen in former Communist nations of renouncing past influences and returning to policies more consistent with the nation’s past history of a Christian nation.

From LifeSiteNews.com

BUDAPEST, December 3, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The recently elected government of Hungary has put forward a draft document for a new constitution that would guarantee the right to life from conception, and protect the natural family, the holy crown and the place of Christianity in Hungary’s 1000-year history.

The new constitution would include clauses defining marriage as a union between one man and one woman.

Should these constitutional changes be adopted, they would create a complete about-face for Hungary, which currently has one of the most liberal abortion laws in Europe.

Read the entire report…

The Calvin Synod has set up a fund to help with the costs of repairing the damage done by reprehensible people to their church. Anyone wishing to make a donation can send their donation to the Synod Treasurer with a note saying the donation is for the Springdale Hungarian Church Repair. The donation may be mailed to the following address.

Calvin Synod, Office of the Treasurer
1836 Timothy Drive
West Mifflin, PA 15122

PWS&D Accepting Donations for Hungary “Red Mud” Disaster

On Monday, October 4, a flood of toxic red sludge inundated several communities around Ajka, Hungary, after a reservoir of an alumina plant burst, injuring 120 people and claiming seven lives. Hundreds of people have lost their homes and belongings, and the sludge’s high concentration of heavy metals have damaged the surrounding land and waterways, including the Danube River. Emergency crews and environmental officials are working hard to contain and neutralize the impact of the toxic waste, a by-product of aluminum refining.

PWS&D Accepting Donations

PWS&D is accepting donations to support the response of Hungarian Reformed Church Aid, the development arm of the Hungarian Reformed Church, a long-standing partner of PWS&D. Assessments of the damage and needs of affected people is underway

Donate Here

Dear Friends:

The Fifty-first Hungarian Protestant 8all will be held on Friday evening, November 12, 2010, at The Forge, Woodbridge, New Jersey (Route 9 North, off exit 11 of the New Jersey Turnpike), with the cocktail hour beginning at 7:00 p.m. This will be followed by the Presentation of the Debutantes, dinner, and the dance.

We are again planning the traditional Opening Ceremony with the Presentation of Debutantes. For this reason, we strongly urge you to recruit the younger members of your congregations and organizations and their friends to participate in this event as debutantes and escorts.

As usual, debutantes and their escorts are the guests of the Ball Committee.

Debutantes and their escorts may meet on one occasion prior to the date of the Ball in order to review the essentials of the opening ceremony.

We ask the pastors and members of the congregations and organizations to set aside November 1fh for the 51st Ball. Admission for the dinner and dance is sixty-five dollars ($65); dance tickets only are twenty dollars ($20); and student tickets (without dinner) are five dollars ($5).

We also invite you to be a Patron of the 51st Hungarian Protestant Ball. A contribution of at least ninety dollars ($90) is requested. A complimentary dinner-dance ticket will be provided to those Patrons who donate one hundred ten dollars ($110) or more. Please inform us of your acceptance by October 31 so that we may include your name in this year’s Patron listing. Any contributions received after November 1 will be acknowledged in next year’s listing. A reservation card and envelope are enclosed for your convenience for ticket and table reservations (10 people per table).

According to the traditions of the Hungarian Protestant Ball, the proceeds from the 8all will be used to provide scholarships to worthy college students. Your support is extremely important and needed; the better the attendance, the larger the Scholarship Fund will be. At last year’s Ball, we awarded six (6) scholarships to deserving college and graduate students of Hungarian background from the funds we received from our supporting Patrons and others.

Please forward the names, addresses, and telephone numbers of those who wish to participate in this year’s Debutante Presentation to anyone of the Committee members, or call Miss Priscilla Hunyady (732-306-6933) or the Rev. Stefan Torok (732-917-4566) or E-mail: hungarianprotestantball@hotmail.com by October 31 for additional information.

Let us all work together to make this 51st Hungarian Protestant Ball a successful event.

Respectfully yours,

The Officers and Trustees
of the Hungarian Protestant Ball

51st Hungarian Protestant Ball – Magyar Protestans Bal – To Benefit The Scholarship Fund

Here are photos of the recent Hungarian Presidential Visit to New York and the Calvin Synod church in New York. They were provided by the Synod Presbyter Lehel Deak.

These are photos provided by the Synod Presbyter, Lehel Deak from the September 18th ordination.