The current Hungarian government’s active “national policy” (nemzetpolitika), whose aim is the “unification of the Hungarian nation across borders,” often leads to ethnic clashes in the neighboring countries, especially in Transylvania. At the moment we are in the throes of such a conflict over a military cemetery only a few kilometers from the pre-1920 border
READ MOREI imagine that the locality of Dărmănești, Bacău has got everything in life. Schools perfectly equipped. Sewerage everywhere. Well-paved roads. I’m very sure of all these, since the mayor considered about three months ago, that Darmanesti has nothing else to do but a plantation of crosses. In a cemetery that was almost forgotten and that
READ MOREBacau County Police opened a criminal file on behalf of the Romanian citizens who destroyed the gate of the Military Cemetery in Valea Uzului on Thursday, according to a Gendarmerie release. We recall that hundreds of Romanians forced the entrance on Thursday to the cemetery that had been locked by Sînmartin Mayor. The on-site images
READ MOREThe High Court of Cassation and Justice (HCCJ) dismissed as unfounded the appeal of the Hungarian Association for Medical and Pharmaceutical Preparedness (AMPMFR) against the decision of the Bucharest Court of Appeal, which upheld the decision of the National Council for Combating Discrimination, according to which the conduct of practice (ducation) only in Romanian at
READ MOREThe National Catholic Reporter’s Joshua J. McElwee wrote an exhaustive piece on the upcoming visit of Pope Francis to Romania, emphasizing the trip’s significance from the perspective of outreach to the Romanian Greek Catholic Church, which counts 500,000 adherents. Pope Francis will beatify seven Greek Catholic bishops, recognizing as well the persecution that Greek Catholic
READ MOREIn March, the Magyar Közlöny reported that the Hungarian government supports the preparation of the creation of the Partium Football Academy. In the first round, the government is spending 216 million forints, but this is only the cost of preparation, not its total investment, which can reach up to 9 million euros. The Partium
READ MOREHungarian winners of the Romanian language competition ”Carte frumoasă, cinste cui te-a scris!’ were awarded by Deputy Prime Minister, Viorel Ştefan, on Friday at Victoria Palace. The pupils ranked first in this competition from Hungarian language schools in Harghita, Covasna, Mures and Brasov, as well as their teachers, were rewarded with diplomas and books from
READ MOREAzbej Tristan, head of the state secretariat of the Hungarian Prime Minister responsible for helping the Christians and implementing the Hungarian Helps program, announced that a new agency will coordinate the government’s programs to help persecuted Christians, reports Magyar Nemzet, a recently republished newspaper close to the Hungarian government. According to their information, the agency
READ MOREHungary’s Catholic leadership is firmly behind Orbán, in fact, church events often serve as political tools to spread Orbán’s nationalist message in the Carpathian basin. Pope Francis plans to visit Romania and is expected to celebrate an outdoor Mass on June 1, 2019 at the shrine of Our Lady of Csíksomlyó, a pilgrimage site near
READ MORETransylvania Free Press is a project of the Roundtable on Ethnic Relations NGO, whose main purpose is to improve access to information by providing a translation into Hungarian of the main Romanian news and a translation into Romanian of the main news from the Hungarian press
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