Hungary's ruling party has called on the Romanian government to investigate a recent attack on a Hungarian Catholic clergyman in the city of Alba Iulia during which the clergyman's attackers shouted anti-Hungarian slogans and beat him with baseball bats. More here.
Relations between Hungary and Romania have been improving in recent years, but Romania's Hungarian minority still faces a great deal of discrimination for its past dominance of local government when Transylvania (now northwestern Romania) was part of the Kingdom of Hungary.
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strange, St Stephen the Great is half Hungarian and half Transylvanian.......
ReplyDeleteI hadn't realized that! I have a Hungarian-American friend who is Orthodox and always looking for Hungarian saints to venerate - I'll have to tell him :-).
ReplyDeleteIt's sad when such little things serve as a rationale to hurt others - what sickness.