Dear Colleagues,

There are three Hungarian lists originating from the University of Maryland
and made available to us by Gotthard:

HAL is a general discussion list,

HL serves ONLY to debate the options for Hungarian Lobby actions and

HL-ACTION: provides one form letter/day, which the Hungarian Lobby has agreed
on and recommends that you send under your name 

HAL takes about 60 minutes, HL about 10 minutes and HL-ACTION 5 minutes a day
of your time, yet it is HL-ACTION, which brings ALL THE RESULTS.

To sign up to any of these lists, please address an e-mail to:



And in the message write:

subsctibe hl-action

subsribe hl

or for HAL:
subscribe hungary  

Best regards: Bela Liptak

Dear Colleagues,

Two developments in connection with our "Csango-Action":

1) I got a letter from the Unitarian Church indicating, that they have
received our donations, which to date totaled $400. They have already mailed
it to Romania.

At the New York Roundtable, I also asked for donations and will mail them as
soon as all have arrived. Please continue sending your donations to:  

Dr. Judit Gellerd
"Center for Free Religion"  
1012 Bryant Ave, 
Chico, California 95926

Dr. Gellerd does not have an e-mail address, but can be reached through:


2) I received a reply from the Iasi Episcopalia in Romania, concerning our
protest in Rome, concerning their denial of the right of the csangos to hear
the mass in their native language.

This (the fact that at least they have replied to my letter), is a good sign.
It is  possible, that it is a reflection on the changing times in Romania.
Unfortunately, I can not tell what the letter says, because it is in German.
(If one of you is willing to translate it, I will fax it over, and ask you to
post the translation on the HL-list.)

>From the letter, all I can tell is, that they understood enough English to
note that I have misspelled the names of both the Bishop and the Archbishop,
not to mention the name of most towns I talked about. This might be because I
got the information from the csangos, who care even less about spelling as I
do.

If you want to speak up for the rights of the csangos, you can write to the
signer of this letter: spokesperson of the Bishop of Iasi, Episcop Petru
Gherghel (the archbishop does not personally answer his mail - familiar?), by
writing to:

Prof. Vadimir Peterca
Episcopia Romano-Catolika 
Boulevard Stefan cel Mare, 26
6600 Iasi, Romania

Best regards: Bela Liptak