By letter, the churches ask them to move pastors forward on the vaccination plan.



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Tamás Fabiny, President and Bishop of the Hungarian Lutheran Church at the opening of the Ecumenical Week of Prayer in Budapest, at the Reformed Church in Calvin Square, on January 19, 2020Photo: Zoltán Balogh / MTI / MTVA

On the occasion of Easter, Tamás Fabiny, president and bishop of the Hungarian Lutheran Church, made a statement to the MTI.

Fabiny spoke of the fact that although the temples are empty this Easter, Jesus cannot be locked up in the temple because it is “bigger than the temple,” and the shepherds continue to serve in such circumstances.

“I want society to understand that our pastors do heroic work and, as doctors, nurses, policemen, soldiers and bakers, they deserve praise,” said the bishop, who says that pastors risk their lives in the same way when they go to the patients. or when they are buried.

Fabiny also revealed that this is why the Catholic, Reformed and Lutheran churches asked Interior Minister Sándor Pintér in a letter that pastors, like teachers, be included in the vaccination plan. Of course, the vaccination of the pastors of all the churches is requested together.

The bishop added that for a year the church did not ask for any privilege for its priests, but now they believe that “however fair it is to vaccinate teachers, it is equally reasonable to ensure the protection of pastors so that they can perform the service that corresponds to them. society so desperately needs. “

Fabiny said that churches also have a serious task ahead of them to restore the mental health of society, as the coronavirus epidemic that has lasted for more than a year has depressed society and churches can do a lot to help it recover from it.



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