Churches are Hungarian government’ strategic partners
The government has considered churches its strategic partners ever since it entered into power in 2010 and will continue to support them, the finance minister said in Debrecen, in eastern Hungary, on Thursday, addressing a church renovation project’s closing ceremony.
Tiszántúl Diocese of the Reformed Church has spent a total of 50 billion forints (EUR 121m) on church renovation projects over the past twelve years, Mihály Varga said at the event. Under a project dubbed Orando et Laborando, the renovation of six churches has been carried out with the EU’s 1.5 billion forint non-refundable support, the minister said.
He noted that the government had supported the construction and renovation of more than 3,000 churches in Hungary and another 860 in neighbouring countries with 220 billion forints since 2010.
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Source: MTI
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If anyone is interested on a long but balanced read on church and government , I recommend:
https://www.deseret.com/indepth/2021/2/11/22276434/the-past-and-future-of-church-state-partnerships-government-faith-based-initiative-bush-biden-trump
The context is obviously US, however many of the questions and solutions could also apply to us!