Budapest

Budapest – On Wednesday, September 12th, the Young Adults in Global Mission (YAGM) Central Europe volunteers completed their orientation with the Sending Service Event at Fasor Lutheran Church. The YAGM volunteers began their journey in Chicago, USA, with YAGM who would serve with communities all over the world.

Nearly 500 Roma and non-Roma Christians gathered in the Deák tér Lutheran Church in Budapest for the 3rd Protestant Roma Mission Conference. Reformed, Lutheran, Methodist, Baptist and Pentecostal participants came to together to praise the Lord in prayer and with traditionally lively Roma music.

The 2018 Week of Prayer for Christian Unity was opened on 21 January 2018 in the St. Stephen’s Basilica in Budapest with sermons by Cardinal Péter Erdő and Reformed Bishop József Steinbach, Chairman of the Ecumenical Council of Churches in Hungary. Prayers were offered especially for the victims of Christian persecution around the globe.