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Hungary Hands Over Public Schools to Religious Institutions – Repost

Hungary Hands Over Public Schools to Religious Institutions

Created on Saturday, 06 April 2013 16:39 / Written by Luis Dufaur

The Hungarian government is transferring public schools to religious institutions, reported the French magazine L’Express.

Pascal Vigil in the Cathedral of Budapest. The Hungarian government is handing public education back to religious institutions.
Pascal Vigil in the Cathedral of Budapest. The Hungarian government is handing public education back to religious institutions.

This policy has infuriated socialist leaders within and outside Hungary and even in European countries where public education has had calamitous results. The angry complaints center on the fact that traditional morals are being restored with the help of Hungarian government policy.Schools have brought back the singing of religious hymns as well as beginning the classes with prayer. And students’ parents get to choose the catechism to be taught to their children.

Churches retain their school subsidies regardless of the number of students. In the small town of Alsoörs, which L’Express presents as a typical case, out of a total of ninty-six families only two voted against transferring the school to the Church, underscoring the strong popular support this measure has. Continue reading “Hungary Hands Over Public Schools to Religious Institutions – Repost” →

Religious Persecution: U.S. Condemns Hungarian Antisemitism

Peanut Gallery: Religious persecution always begins with talk….

U.S. Condemns Far-Right Calls For Lists Of Hungarian Jews

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By Stefan J. Bos, Chief International Correspondent BosNewsLife reporting from Budapest

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Jobbik legislator Marton Gyöngyösi’s remarks about Jews have been condemned.

BUDAPEST, HUNGARY (BosNewsLife)– The United States on Tuesday, November 27, condemned calls by an influential Hungarian far-right parliamentarian to draw up lists of Jews who pose a “national security risk”, a proposal resembling the Nazi-era.

Marton Gyöngyösi, a leader of Hungary’s third-strongest political party ‘Movement for a Better Hungary’ (Jobbik) said the list was necessary because of heightened tensions following the brief conflict in Gaza and should include members of parliament.

“I know how many people with Hungarian ancestry live in Israel, and how many Israeli Jews live in Hungary,” he told parliament on Monday, November 26.

“I think such a conflict makes it timely to tally up people of Jewish ancestry who live here, especially in the Hungarian Parliament and the Hungarian government, who, indeed, pose a national security risk to Hungary,” he added.

Gyöngyösi, 35, said the country’s foreign ministry had “rushed to make an oath of allegiance to Israel.”

U.S. CONDEMNATION

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In a statement to BosNewsLife, the U.S. embassy in Budapest said, “The United States utterly rejects and condemns in the strongest terms the outrageous anti-Semitic remarks made on the floor of Parliament by a Jobbik parliamentarian on November 26.”

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