Hungarian Church Press, 1957 (9. évfolyam, 14-15. szám)

1957-12-31 / 15. szám

HCHP XII.31,1957, Yol.IX/l5-16- 16 -194

emergency: staie-subsidy to the reformed church

The Presidium of the General Convent - in close cooperation with the Presidential Council of the Convent - solicited the government not to bring into operation at rendering payable the 25 % cut, due according to the agreement since the outset of the New Year, considering the present financial situation of the church. The State Office far Religious Affairs of the Ministry of Culture forwarded the re- * quest to the Revolutionary Worker-Peasant Government. The government "in view of the good relation existing between the State and the Reformed Church in Hungary which could not be after all overthrown in the last year’s Counter-Revolution either, and the same time considering the situation of the Reformed Church it accedes to the request in the way that it fills up the gasps emerging of the cut according to the agreement with an emergenoy state-subsidy till December the 31st 1958, It does not want - with this financial help - to take a new burden upon itself beyond the agreement but it will be ready to examine the situation of that time together with the presidency of the General Convent again,”

In the common official statement of this agreement which was signed by D. Albert Bereczky, Ministerial President ;of the General Convent and Mr. János Horváth, President of the State Office for Religious Affairs on December the 27th Í9£>7 - the Presidium of the General Convent thanks the government for the subsidy and expresses its readiness to help in the work taken upon itself for the peace and well-being of the Hungarian people and in accomplishing the goals of the National Popular Front: as well.

THE ACCOUNTS OF THE HUNGARIAN CHURCH DELEGATION" RETURNED FROM CHINA

The members cf the Protestant Church Delegation having been returned from China after a nearly five week tour abroad, have reported in several places of their experiences relating what they had seen in the Sovjet Union and in People’s China, and reporting of the life and circumstances of the churches of that place. Senior István SzamoskUzi editor-in-chief of the "Reformátusok Lapja" wrote two highly interesting articles under the titles "Some lessons of our China Tour" and "Details of our China Tour" in which he examined the inner connections of the observed occurrences. The "Evangélikus Élet" issued a series of reports under the title: "We visited China". The situation of the church in the life of the New China and the cultural, social, economic, and national relations as well became known both of the press reports and of the addresses in the widest circles of the church. The delegates especially warmly spoke of the pure patriotism, free of apprehensiveness and ready for every sacrifice in behalf of the socialist motherland, of the Chinese Christians. - Churches in China are churches of the Chinese people - it runs the "Reformátusok Lapja". Patriotism is mixed up with the love of the churoh with them in a way as with us it weis shown up only in the glorious centuries of the Reformation. Let us thank for our Chinese brethren’s love and giving good exarrples with the remembrence of Christmas, We firmly believe that what is possible in the complete new order of life with them - just as consequence of their Christianity taken seriously - it is possible in our life either - ends the editor’s article.