Calvin Synod Herald, 1981 (81. évfolyam, 1-6. szám)
1981-05-01 / 5-6. szám
REFORMÁTUSOK LAPJA 7 UCC members gave $22,115,678 to Our Christian World Mission for basic support in 1980, a $1,257,- 587 ( 6.03%) increase over 1979 contributions, according to the annual report of receipts released by Charles H. Lockyear, director of finance and treasurer. The 39 UCC conferences used $11,490,026 ( 52%) of the total, a $795,434 ( 7.44%) increase over 1979. The national treasury received $10,625,660 ( 48%) of the whole for the work of the nine national instrumentalities and the Executive Council, a $462,153 (4.55%) increase over 1979. The 1979 national share of total giving was 48.7%. The three conferences with the largest dollar gains were Ohio, $121,979 (5%); Connecticut, $91- 634 (6%), and Iowa $66,951 (8%). Southeast, Northern California, Southwest and North Dakota led in percentage increases in giving, with 19, 18, 16 and 15% respectively. Washington-North Idaho increased giving 12%, and Central Pacific, Minnesota and South Dakota posted 10% increases. For the first time, no conference was lower in total giving than it had been the year before. The Southern Conference, while reducing its share of OCWM money by $10,464, increased its payment to the national Church by $12,980. OCWM GOALS MET Conferences that achieved their 1980 goals for giving to national basic support were Northern California, Central Atlantic, Central Pacific, Florida, Maine, Minnesota, Nebraska, New Hampshire, Ohio, Penn Central, Rocky Mountain, South Dakota, Southeast, Southwest and Washington-North Idaho. Iowa, Missouri and Vermont were short of their goals by less than $1,000. Ohio, as in past years, raised the largest sum for OCWM, $2,445,073. Connecticut, $1.595,651; Massachusetts, $1,285,740; Illinois, $1,233,859, and Penn Central, $1,120,432, followed in order, as they have in years past. Indiana-Kentucky passed the $1 million mark for the first time, with $1,000,408. Together, these six conferences accounted for $8,- 681,164 ( 39%) of total OCWM giving and $4,949,948 (47%) of money received by the national treasury for basic support. SPECIAL OFFERINGS ALSO UP All churchwide offerings except the Family Thank Offering increased subsantially in 1980. One Great Hour of Sharing income was $2,328,751, up $310,324 (15%). Others were: Neighbors in Need, $873,496, up $142,075 (19%); Veterans of the Cross, $403,429, up $17,397 (5%); UCC Hunger Fund, $165,904, up $26,364 (19%); Second Mile Specials, $123,757, up $21.173 (21%). Family Thank Offering, at $354,275, fell $6,105 (2%). Directed gifts to national instrumentalities were $1.036,304, down $154.912 (13%) from 1979 receipts. STOP Hungarian Persecution I N TRANSYLVANIA WHAT HAPPENED TO BORIKA BODÓ? Under the above title the Transylvanian Quarterly published a report in October, 1979, based on information received directly from Transylvania. According to this information on June 28, 1979, three young girl* in the village of Szék (Secu) were singing old Hungarian folk songs while working in the field. In spite of being admonished twice by their supervisor not to sing Hungarian songs because they are in the land of the Rumanian people, the three girls continued singing in Hungarian. Soon a police vehicle arrived at the scene, picked up the girls, and took them to the police station in neighboring Kolozs (Cojocna), where they were stripped, beaten and raped. Next morning two of the tortured girls were released, but the parents of the third girl. Borika Bodó, 16, were told by police chief Morariu that their daughter had to be transferred to Kolozsvár (Cluj-Napoca) in order to stand trial. However, when the parents inquired at the Kolozsvár authorities, nobody seemed to know anything of the girl. She simply disappeared. The parents were told to keep their mouth shut or else, and foreign organizations inquiring about the case were advised that no person by that name had ever existed in Rumania. More than a year has passed. Then in September 1980 a young Hungarian refugee, who escaped from Rumania, arrived in Italy. As a political dissident he spent three years in the Kolozsvár dungeon, and was transferred from there in the spring of 1980 to a "mental clinic" where he was subjected to different experiments on drugs. He recalled seeing there a girl by the name of Bori, who, together with other young girls, was used for the sexual pleasure of the staff. Some time in May this girl had committed suicide by an overdose of drugs and was buried in the cemetery behind the institution. Since Bori and Borika are the same name, it can be assumed that it was the missing Borika Bodó who put an end to her life already destroyed by her captors. So the question: what happened to Borika Bodó? seems to be answered. 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