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While, according to Gábor Iványi, the Orbán government has been persecuting its religious community since 2010, the Pastoral Charity Association, led by the parish priest, has received 2.5 billion florins in additional funding from the Ministry of Human Resources in the last eight years.
The Magyar Nemzet writes about this in his Tuesday issue. According to the article, the Hungarian Evangelical Brotherhood (MET), which maintains the association, continuously receives the state standard for its public service institutions, and between 2012 and 2020 it also received more than 2.5 billion guilders in additional support from Emmi. The only one withdrawn by the government is half of the supplementary rule, about 95 million guilders.
Meanwhile, despite the subsidies, the homeless shelters run by the association are in dire condition, with unpaid utility bills. According to information published in the press, the amount of the Iványi family’s public service debt is of the order of one hundred million at the national level, in the institutions on Dankó Street another thirty million florins.
According to a social worker who used to work there, homeless people often choose the street instead of accommodation:
Few are given to have their own beds. Most have to sleep in a different bed each night, so hygiene rules are difficult to follow and often the homeless person who goes to work and has a blanket under him on the street is the same.
The narrative of the Iványi, explaining the financial difficulties of their social and educational institutions, is that as of 2010 the new power attacked the MET, depriving it of its ecclesiastical status and associated state subsidies. And the reason for the alleged persecution is their unwillingness to push the chariot of power.
We have been a functioning church since our inception. If the government passes an unconstitutional law that removes this acquired right, it is a violent, illegal act.
The pastor told the Weekly Response at the time.
In fact, since the Ecclesiastical Law of 2011 came into force, the Hungarian Evangelical Brotherhood has not been one of the registered churches in Hungary. However, all this does not violate religious freedom, since credit activities can also be carried out by a non-governmental organization. At the same time, the news about the disenfranchisement of the Hungarian Evangelical Brotherhood, considered by Methodists as divisive, also seems unfounded, since according to the Hungarian Nation, the church registration procedure is already underway in the Metropolitan Court .
By the way, the new Ecclesiastical Law was enacted by accident, as in 2010 there were around two hundred registered churches in Hungary, a significant part of which were driven only by state subsidies, did not carry out lending activities and had no living congregations or communities.
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