Of all the stories from 2003, this one best reveals a quality that marked the men and women we interviewed, a spirit of forgiveness and t...

In this blog post, Daniel Szabo reflects on Janos Peter and Tibor Bartha, bishops in Debrecen, Hungary’s Reformed “Jerusalem.” Szabo also...

At the end of his life, Jozsef Berenyi saw reasons for hope, and one sign was his daughter, Ilona Racsok. Only after the changes of 1989 w...

Berenyi's story reflects the relentless pressure on the Christian church during communist days.

The new year is upon us with all its complications, hopes, and fears. I want to wish all my readers many blessed moments of daily goodnes...

Jozsef Berenyi, a retired pastor whose story revealed the unsettling reality that Reformed church leaders willingly chose to collaborate.

. For Daniel, trust was not an abstract concept, but something he put into practice.

It’s all right to cry, but we may not stop with the crying; we must also work. The Lord helped me commit myself to underground work.

Unfortunately, the police were interested in me and my writings; I was arrested and interrogated in Debrecen for about a year.

I felt during this writing that God really filled me up with an inner joy.

Though some professors and students were silenced out of fear, the spirit of the revolution continued to ferment in seminaries.

To understand the context of Daniel Szabo’s story, I went back to, The Lean Years, a small book by Gyula Gombos, a Hungarian Reformed pa...

"I remembered the way my family behaved . . . not compelled to act in reaction . . . but to look out for those in need. "

We were not thinking about political movements, but about communities, persecuted people, poor people, needy situations . . .

This post marks a shift away from Romania and Ukraine to Hungary and the testimonies of Daniel Szabo and Joszef Berenyi.