Opening of Diaconia Shop

On October 16th, the Hungarian Reformed Church Aid (HRCA) celebrated opening a new location for its “DIACONIA” brand at the Récsei Center in Budapest. With the establishment of this shop, HRCA marks a significant milestone in its economic development efforts associated with the Emerging Settlement Programme.

God Has Chosen Us To Be His Co-workers

The international consultation on Shared Responsibility: Cooperation between States and Religious Communities in Europe took place on 18 October at the Museum of Ethnography in Budapest in the framework of the Hungarian EU Presidency. Bishop József Steinbach, ministerial president of the Synod of the Reformed Church in Hungary (RCH) addressed the participants.

WCRC Europe President Visits Transcarpathia

Martina Wasserloos-Strunk, President of the World Communion of Reformed Churches-Europe (WCRC), visited the reformed church in Hungary and the Reformed Church in Transcarpathia (RCT) to meet with various church representatives in her capacity as president.

Shared Solidarity with Transcarpathia

The Reformed Church in Hungary (RCH) and the Reformed Church in Transcarpathia (RCT) hosted representatives of the United Reformed Church (UK) (URC) and the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) (DOC) in the United States and Canada.

United Church of Christ and Church of Scotland Visit to Hungary and Transcarpathia

The visit affirmed the importance of commitment to fostering international relationships between the churches and the support and solidarity between the partners.

The Hungarian Reformed Church Aid Responds in Flood-Affected Areas

The Hungarian Reformed Church Aid (HRCA) has coordinated a response to the floods resulting from Storm Boris along the Danube River. Volunteers are packing and setting sandbags at designated sites in cities along the Danube.

Repentance and Credibility

József Steinbach, Bishop of the Transdanubian Church District, was unanimously elected by the Synod of the Reformed Church in Hungary in April 2024 as the Ministerial President of the Synod. He was interviewed by the Gustav-Adolf-Werk (GAW) Society, partner of the Reformed Church in Hungary.

Disenchanting the Earthly Ends in Themselves

“Karl Barth's lasting merit is that he firmly warned against any attempt to turn theology into a system of worldviews,” says theologian Sándor Fazakas, head of the Department of Social Ethics and Church Sociology at the Debrecen Reformed Theological University. This year, he was awarded the prestigious Karl Barth Prize, founded in 1986, by the German Union of Protestant Churches (UEK).

Hungarian Reformed Church will not take part in the CPCE General Assembly

HEKS Project Evaluation Workshop

On June 19th, representatives from Swiss Church Aid (HEKS), the Reformed Church in Hungary (RCH), the Hungarian Reformed Church Aid (HRCA), the Diaconia and Educational Service met to present and discuss two projects implemented in cooperation.

Churches’ Contribution to the Hungarian EU Presidency

A delegation of representatives from the Conference of European Churches (CEC) and the Commission of the Bishops’ Conferences in the European Union (COMECE) visited Budapest between June 22nd and June 25th to meet with Hungarian representatives

On Revised Route

He loves sports, gardening, art, but most of all, life. From a young age, he trained to be a minister, and after thirty-five years as a minister and sixteen years as a bishop, he was planning to retire. But the Lord had a new chapter in store for him: Bishop József Steinbach of the Transdanubian Reformed Church District was elected as ministerial president by the Synod of the Reformed Church in Hungary at its spring session.

Living Church in Living Congregations: the Reformed Prayer Chain Begins

"A congregation is not alive because it organizes programmes, but because what happens there points to Christ,” says Levente Zoltán Hajdú, head of the Mission Service of the Reformed Church in Hungary.

Pentecost Circular of the Hungarian Reformed Church

It is a Pentecostal miracle; we come out of the pit of selfishness and conceit, of self-obsession, egotism, and despair, and we become not only witnesses but instruments of God's saving love.

Bishop Pásztor Dániel Resigned

Dániel Pásztor resigned from his pastoral ministry in the congregation of Sajóvelezd (Cistibiscan Church District, Northern Hungary). The resignation terminates his mandate as bishop and ministerial vice-president of the Synod.

President of WCRC-European Region Visits the Reformed Church in Transcarpathia

On April 20th and 21st, Martina Wasserloos, President of the European Area of World Communion of Reformed Churches (WCRC), visited Transcarpathia to meet with pastors and church leaders of the Reformed Church in Transcarpathia (RCT). The visit also included a meeting with the Diaconal Coordination Office (DCO) and a tour of one of its projects.

Pál Huszár, Former Lay President of the Synod of the Reformed Church in Hungary Has Passed Away

Pál Huszár, the two-term lay president of the Transdanubian Reformed Church District and the two-term lay president of the Synod of the Reformed Church in Hungary, the former lay president of the Reformed Presbytery of Veszprém, the elder of the Reformed parish of Várpalota, a high school and university teacher, has returned home to his Saviour.

Bishop Steinbach Elected as the New President of the Synod

The Synod unanimously elected Bishop József Steinbach, head of the Transdanubian Church Dirstrict, as Ministerial President of RCH. Synod resolution and inaugural address.

National Reformed Roma Ministry Prayer Day and Meeting

On 13 April, the Reformed Church of Káposztámegyer, Budapest, and its surroundings bustled with community life early in the morning. Roma and non-Roma people from all over the country came for the tenth edition of the prayer day. All had come for an exceptional opportunity to give themselves freely to the Word of God, the joy of encounter and their often challenging identity, the Roma culture.

CEC Delegation Meets With Reformed Church in Transcarpathia Leadership

A delegation from the Conference of European Churches travelled to Berehove, Ukraine, to meet with leadership from the Reformed Church in Transcarpathia. The meeting was part of a broader visit with church leaders in several Ukrainian cities in a demonstration of solidarity and uplift dialogue for peace.