Magyar Egyház, 1994 (73. évfolyam, 1-4. szám)

1994 / 1. szám

MAGYAREGYHÁZ

9. oldal

prayers. The devil hides behind miniskirts, an “indecent” type of women’s clothes, whose only purpose is to “seduce” men, claimed the archbishop, well known for his extreme views. (EPS)

PRESBYTERIAN LEADER CRITICIZES RE-IMAGINING CONFERENCE

Louisville. James Brown, executive director of the Presbyterian Church (USA) Assembly Council, has told his presbyters and synod executives that the church “needs to sort out common concerns and deep hurts” connected to an ecumenical women’s conference held in Minneapolis last November. The conference has been criticized for “goddess worship” after prayers to Sophia (EPS 94.03.25). In a letter dated 25 March, and published by PCUSA News, Brown says that he agrees with the criticism that “aspects of the liturgies used in Minneapolis were in poor taste, theologically and aesthetically, and ought to be labelled as such”. (EPS)

HARARE CHOSEN AS SITE FOR WCC’S EIGHT ASSEMBLY

JOHANNESBURG. At the January meeting of Central Committee of the World Council of Churches Harare, the capital of Zimbabwe (Africa) has been chosen as the site for the Eight Assembly of the World Council of Churches in 1998. With 117 members voting in a secret ballot Harare won a majority on the first round, with 70 votes. The Amsterdam, site of the WCC’s First Assembly in 1948, finished second with 41 votes. Swedish Lutheran Bishop Jonas Jonson was appointed to chair the 22-member Assembly Planning Committee and the Rev. Dorothy McMahon of the Uniting Church in Australia to be the moderator of the 18- member Assembly Worship Comittee. (EPS)

POPE PRESENTED WITH NEW CATHOLIC EDITION OF THE BIBLE

A copy of the Catholic Edition of the New Revised Standard Version of the Bible (NRSV) was presented to Pope John Paul II on December 4, 1993, by Joan Brown Campbell, General Secretary of the U.S. National Council of Churches. On receiving the Bible, the pope declared that “the Holy Scriptures will bring all Christians together.” The text was prepared by a NCC-sponsored team of translators, including five Roman Catholic scholars, and has been approved for use in worship every Sunday by Catholics in the US, Canada, Great Britain and Australia. In her presentation, Campbell said “the use of the same Bible by Catholics, Protestants and Orthodox Christians in worship is a powerful symbol of ecumenism.”

REQUESTS FOR FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE

The Bishop’s Office receives many requests from churches for financial aid to help church-building or renovation. We are listing a number of them naming cities or villages appealing to the generosity of our church people.

From Hungary: CSURGÓ, new church building;

KISKUNMAJSA, building of new church and manse;

KOLKED, building of old peoples’ home;

BUDAPEST-KULSO KELENFÖLD, building of new church;

MEGYASZO, church renovation;

SIOFOK, new church building;

SZIKSZÓ, church renovation;

TISZAFOLDVAR, new church building;

TISZARAD, church renovation;

TÖRÖKBÁLINT, building of new church;

From Transylvania:

BAROT, building of new church;

KOLOZSVAR-MONOSTOR, building of new church;

SIKLÓD, building of new church;

TOKOZ, SUBURB OF KOLOZSVÁR, building of new church;

From Upper Hungary:

LEVA, church renovation;

NEMESOCSA, new bells and parsonage;

From Carpatho-Ukraine:

VISK, building of new church and parsonage

Donations for the above causes, individually separated and earmarked, should be sent to the Mission Fund of the Hungarian Reformed Church in America, Ms. Priscilla Hunyady, Treasurer, 50 N. Washington Avenue, Colonia, NJ 07067.

ECUMENICAL PRESS SERVICE

Co-Editors: Stephen Brown Edmund Doogue P.O.Box 2100,

CH-1211 Geneva 2 Phone: (41-22) 791 61 50 Fax: (41-22) 798 13 46 Telex: 415 730 OIK Ch

Geneva, 28 March 1994

To All EPS Subscribers

You may have read in ‘Shoptalk’ in a recent issue of EPS that in the course of 1994, EPS is to develop into an ecumenical news service, and we would like to take this opportunity of sharing something of our plans.