"Messiah is born" annoounced by the Angels

 

Festive mood took place during the last Hungarian classes at all places of education, our pupils prepared nativity plays, gifts, songs, poems for Jesus's birthday.
Our pupils in Labnik could already celebrate in the main room of the almost finished "House of the Children". We hope that the the Hungarian classes can already take place here during the spring. Our local priest has also participated at the festivities here. He loaned the set for the nativity play.
The festivities in Pusztina also took place in the new local house.
There were many attendees also in doiszen, where not everybody could fit into the room. Part of the audience followed the children's play from the courtyard.
The children sang "Mennybol az angyal" (Angel from Heaven) in rented rooms in Kuslorekecsin, Buda and Kostelek.
In Magyarfalu, Leszped, Somoska and Klezse the Hungarian Christmas took place in the local schools. The children in Trunk greeted their Romanian teachers also with Hungarian songs.
In the village Csik, the festivity took place in the local youth house owned by the catholic church, where the local priest has also participated.
The children in gajdar and Frumszo have celebrated in small groups.
The pupils in higher education gathered in their dormitory in Csikszereda to celebrate.
This was the first time to celebrate in Hungarian classes in Bako, Lujzikalagor and Nagypatak.

We have prepared gift packages for several hundred pupils with the help of our supporters.

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A Romanian authority acknowledges for the first time the forced assimilation of the Csango-s

 

President Basescu condemned communism during a joint session of the Romanian Parliament on the 18th December, 2006, and called it an illegitimate and barbaric regime. According to him, his intention is not a witch-hunt, but to discover the truth and to ask for a historical apology from the victims. Therefore President Basescu has established a presidential committee for analyzing the Romanian communist dictatorship, which consists of leading Romanian historians and personalities. This committee has prepared a 700 page document, which analyzes the atrocities, the oppressiveness, the collectivization of the regime and its negative effect on the economy and society.

The document, which was presented recently and the Presidential speech was received unfavorably and with resistance by the nationalist movements. (not without a reason, as shown in the section below relating to the Csango-s)

The document describes the situation of the ethnic minorities during the communist regime. On page 536 3 paragraphs describe the forced assimilation of the Csango-s in Moldova and the responsibility of the Catholic Church.

 

We are publishing this section below:

 

"The assimilation policy of the communist regime had fatal effect on the Csango community in Moldova, which counts a population of appr. 60,000, and lives in the counties of Bako and Neamt. The first attempts of the forced assimilation of the Csangos in Moldova date back to the time between the two world wars, in which process a significant role was played by the Roman Catholic Church. The Roman Catholic Church in order to protect itself from the forced integration with the Orthodox church tried not to prevent the assimilation of the Csangos. Therefore, they did not provide education and religious services in Hungarian for the Csangos.

The Romanian Workers' party has used the Hungarian Association to create 40 schools teaching the Moldovan csangos Hungarian. The purpose of these schools was to weaken the influence of the church in these communities. These schools were eliminated between 1953 and 1958. During the 70s and 80s, all those Csangos, who declared themselves Hungarians, had to live with the constant harassment of the Securiate."

 

The full document is published on the web page of the Romanian presidential office.