Itt tölthető le a cikk A cikk angolul A magyar „rabszolgatörvény” és a bíróságokról szóló törvény miatti felháborodásunkban azonban se feledkezzünk meg arról, hogy az Országgyűlés a 2018. december 11-i mozgalmas ülésszaka folyamán a magyar egyháztörvényt is módosította. Az Orbán… Read More ›
Hungary
Hungary’s New Church Law is Worse than the First
This article was published in, and can be cited as, “Hungary’s New Church Law is Worse than the First,” Occasional Papers on Religion in Eastern Europe: Vol. 39, Issue 3, Article 2. Available at: <https://digitalcommons.georgefox.edu/ree/vol39/iss3/2> Download a copy of this article… Read More ›
The Fall of Hungary: Viktor Orbán’s Push to Destroy Democracy
Demonstrators protesting Lex CEU / Source: CEU webpage Early in April, the Hungarian parliament, tightly controlled by the country’s autocratic prime minister, Viktor Orbán, passed a law aimed at forcing the closure of Budapest’s independent and prestigious Central European University…. Read More ›
Draft of New Hungarian Church Law in English
Christians Associated for Democracy has translated the newest draft of Hungary’s law on the “legal status of churches” into English. The European Court of Human Rights found an earlier version of the law to violate the right of religious freedom. The amended… Read More ›
My Work on Religious Freedom in Hungary
I recently gave an interview at TLU about the state of religious freedom in Hungary. A youtube video of the interview is below.
Learning from Bishop Ordass
Here’s an essay I wrote for Principium about political lessons to be learned from Lajos Ordass, the Hungarian confessor bishop. The Nature of Christian Political Action: Lessons from the Witness of Bishop Ordass “For Christians, to find the right form… Read More ›
HUNGARY: Deregistration of religious communities – A professor of Texas Lutheran University reacts to MEP György Hölvenyi’s comment
Originally posted on Forum for Religious Freedom Europe:
____________________________ HUNGARY: Deregistration of religious communities – A professor of Texas Lutheran University reacts to MEP György Hölvenyi’s comment Published by Human Rights Without Frontiers (HRWF) ____________________________ (HRWF) – Following the publication of…
For Hungary, The Game is Up: Ruling on Religion Law Forces Viktor Orbán’s Hand
The following editorial was first published in the Dutch paper Reformatorisch Dagblad on October 7, 2014, then republished in the online edition of the paper with the title “Tijd voor Orban om open kaart te spelen.” My original English text… Read More ›
Hungary’s Animal Farm
In November 2013 I delivered a paper at a conference of the Universal Peace Federation held in the Parliament building of the United Kingdom. The title of my paper was “All Animals Are Equal, But Some Animals Are More Equal… Read More ›
My Book on Hungary’s Religion Law
A vallásszabadság védelmében / Essays in Defense of Religious Freedom. Budapest: Wesley János kiadó, 2014. This is the title of a new book I’ve published in English and Hungarian about a Hungary’s law on “religious freedom and the legal status… Read More ›
