Hungary
Hungary’s Tokaj wine region revives Jewish heritage
By RNS staff — July 23, 2016
MÁD, Hungary (Reuters) After two centuries of prosperity generated from the sweet wine that became popular in the courts of Europe, Jews in Tokaj were deported with the help of the Hungarian Gendarmerie to a ghetto and from there to Auschwitz concentration camp.
Bone fragment of murdered archbishop of Canterbury begins English pilgrimage
By RNS staff — May 24, 2016
LONDON (Reuters) A fragment of bone belonging to the murdered archbishop of Canterbury, Thomas Becket, has returned to England from Hungary for the first time in 800 years.
Hungarian church thanks God, government for fending off migrants
By Reuters — October 2, 2015
Prime Minister Viktor Orban has sealed Hungary's borders with Serbia to stem the influx and pledged not to let mainly Muslim migrants threaten Hungary's Christian traditions.
70 years after Nazi occupation, anti-Semitism still a problem in Hungary
By Trevor Grundy — March 19, 2014
BUDAPEST, Hungary (RNS) On the 70th anniversary of the Nazi invasion of Hungary, many Jews are wondering whether the passage of time has done much to quell this nation’s troubling history of anti-Semitism.
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