Be The Heart of RefoRom

The Reformed Roma Special College in Budapest (RefoRom) launched a campaign to help disadvantaged roma students in their studies and living. The College is collecting donations so the students are able to buy the right quality and amount of food, notes, books and clothing for themselves.

16/12/2020

New Country Program Launched With HEKS

The new Country Program of HEKS starts the 1st of January 2021. One of the primary goals is to encourage the RCH’s congregations to be more open towards roma communities and to support ministries among roma families, children and youth.

08/12/2020

címkék: roma ministry, HEKS

Roma People Have the Right to Speak Out

Zoltán Beck is known in Hungary as the frontman of 30Y rock band. It is lesser known that as a senior lecturer in the Department of Romology at the University of Pécs, he has had a decades-long acamedic career.

04/12/2020

Online Prayer Day and Roma Mission Field Trip

The Roma Mission Theologian Tield Trip had to move to the online world. Senior theologian-pastoral students at Károli Gáspár University were able to take part in an intimate and informative three day course where they gained good experience for their future service.

02/11/2020

címkék: roma ministry

Connecting to the Network of God

We prepared for the Roma Ministry Conference with this in mind: we have to do what we must for protection. This is why we’ve changed our personal event to online where we had Bible study discussions to deepen faith, prayers, and cultural programs.

29/10/2020

HEKS Continues to Support Roma Integration Projects

COVID-19 didn’t prevent participants of the HEKS workshop from evaluating the Roma integration projects of the past four years and discussing new plans for the upcoming years.

29/09/2020

címkék: HEKS

We Felt God's Blessing During the Emergency

Márton Lovász, pastor of Reformed Special College, speaks about the spiritual and social proximity even against physical distance and the challenges of the second part of the school year.

24/08/2020

Evaluation and Planning

RCH hosted a video conference with HEKS representatives to review the outgoing period of Church Cooperation and to plan the new Country Program focusing on social change in terms of integration of Roma and Refugees.

03/07/2020

Teaching Roma Children is a Dream Come True

Interview with the Viktor Budai, holder of the best Roma Reformed Teacher Award of the year, about his adventurous life, wows, dreams and prejudices against Roma.

23/06/2020

Evaluation of HEKS Roma Inclusion Projects Underway

Focus group discussions, external financial audit, exhaustive narrative reports – this is how RCH and HEKS prepare the evaluation of their cooperation in the past four years.

19/06/2020

Don’t Let Them Down!

Georgina Laboda, Student of Political Sciences and resident of the Reformed Roma Special College in Budapest (RefoRom) reflects on the social consequences of COVID-19 for the most vulnearble Roma communities in Hungary.

16/05/2020

Physically Distant but Close in Spirit

When the restrictions of movement and the temporary closure of universities were announced, both Roma Special Collegia of RCH suspended their operation – at least within the walls of the institutions. Activities are still just as intensive as before.

13/05/2020

címkék: Roma Collegium

Voices from a Roma Conference

Video message from the CCME conference "Justice for Roma and Sinti: a challenge for churches" produced by Attila Dezső, the communication manager of the National Roma Ministry of RCH.

23/04/2020

címkék: churches' commission for migrants in europe (ccme)

Wandering Community

After seven years of observing the International Roma Day on April 4 as a festive gathering and a day of joint prayer of Roma and non-Roma alike, RCH’s Roma Ministry invited congregation to a virtual pilgrimage of prayer and praise.

06/04/2020

címkék: coronavirus, international roma prayer day, roma ministry

Breaking Down Barriers from Both Sides

Both sides are needed in Roma Ministry to break down barriers, concluded the three-day international conference, organized by Churches' Commission for Migrants in Europe (CCME) in Budapest, in cooperation with the Reformed Church in Hungary.

18/03/2020

Churches Together for Roma and Sinti

CCME Cooomunique about the Conference ‘Justice for Roma and Sinti: a challenge for churches’ that took place in the Synod Hall of RCH co-hosted by CCME and RCH.

13/03/2020

Together for One Another

"We cannot cross out the Gospel passages in which Jesus tells us to include the excluded." Interview with Kinga Lakatos about the significance of community development in Roma Ministry on the occasion of a continued training for pastors actively serving among Gypsies.

06/03/2020

Jesus Wants to Purify Our Hearts

Under the Motto „Create in me a pure heart, O God” the reformed Great Church in Debrecen hosted the 5th annual Protestant Roma Mission Conference with over 1500 participants.

22/02/2020

Justice for Roma

Under the title “Justice for Roma and Sinti – a challenge for churches” Churches´ Commission for Migrants in Europe will organize in cooperation with the Reformed Church in Hungary a conference to be held 9 – 11 March 2020 in Budapest.

02/02/2020

A Textbook Case of Love

The corridors of the primary school in Göncruszka are covered in lights. The teachers and children are preparing for Christmas together. An interview with Levente Sohajda.

16/12/2019

címkék: interview, roma ministry, christmas