NEWS WATCH: Hungary University Saves Baby Of Brain-Dead Mother
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By Stefan J. Bos, Chief International Correspondent BosNewsLife
DEBRECEN/BUDAPEST (BosNewsLife)-- A Hungarian university hospital says a premature but healthy baby was delivered after doctors kept the child's brain-dead mother on life support for three months, a move, it claims, will shake the foundations of human medicine. After a 31-year-old mother suffered a stroke when she was just 15 weeks pregnant, the hospital of the University of Debrecen in eastern Hungary sprang into action.
Roma ‘Fresco Village’ Turns Hungary Hardship Into Hope (Special Feature)
By Stefan J. Bos, Chief International Correspondent BosNewsLife reporting from Bódvalenke, Hungary
BODVALENKE, HUNGARY (BosNewsLife)-- A malnourished villager in northeastern Hungary, who claims to be 20-years-old, smiles while holding her premature baby in her arms. She likes a recently completed fresco showing Gypsy life and references to Jesus Christ. Nearby children are finishing the 33rd mural in Bódvalenke, the world's only Fresco Village painted by Gypsy artists, also known as Roma.
NEWS WATCH: Hungary Remembers 1956 Revolution Amid Election Tensions
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BUDAPEST, HUNGARY (BosNewsLife)-- Hungary has commemorated the crushed 1956 Revolution against Soviet domination amid increasing tensions between the government and opposition ahead of next year's elections.
Hungary Beatifies Executed Monk
By BosNewsLife News Center in Budapest
- BUDAPEST, HUNGARY (BosNewsLife)-- Hungary on Saturday, October 19, witnessed the beatification of a Salezian monk who was executed for his Christian activities by Hungary's Communist regime.
NEWS WATCH: Former Hungarian Leader Charged With War Crimes
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By Stefan J. Bos, Chief International Correspondent BosNewsLife reporting from Budapest, Hungary
BUDAPEST, HUNGARY (BosNewsLife)-- Hungarian prosecutors have charged a former communist leader with war crimes for his involvement in crushing Hungary's 1956 Revolution against Soviet domination.
NEWS WATCH: Hungary’s Ruling Party Condemns Far-Right Antisemitism
By Stefan J. Bos, Chief International Correspondent BosNewsLife reporting from Budapest, Hungary
BUDAPEST, HUNGARY (BosNewsLife)-- Hungary's ruling Fidesz party on Tuesday, October 15, condemned a legislator of the influential far-right opposition for using "anti-Semitic rhetoric" in relation to the upcoming Holocaust Memorial Year.
NEWS WATCH: Hungary Launches Crackdown On Homeless
By Stefan J. Bos, Chief International Correspondent BosNewsLife reporting from Budapest, Hungary
BUDAPEST, HUNGARY (BosNewsLife)-- Hungary has launched a crackdown on its many homeless people, with thousands facing imminent detention under a new controversial law. The measures come as homeless Hungarians wake up after sleeping near a garbage dump, hidden between the bushes, somewhere in Budapest.
NEWS WATCH: UN Warns Of Global Water Shortages
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By Stefan J. Bos, Chief International Correspondent BosNewsLife
BUDAPEST, HUNGARY (BosNewsLife)-- Representatives from more than 100 United Nations member states and organizations have appealed to world leaders to urgently tackle expected water scarcity around the world.
NEWS WATCH: Hungary Hosting Water Summit Amid World Tensions
By Stefan J. Bos, Chief International Correspondent BosNewsLife
BUDAPEST, HUNGARY (BosNewsLife)-- The United Nations has warned that climate change and demographic changes will pose a major risk to healthy water supplies around the world.
Hungary’s Crocodile Tears Over Holocaust
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By Stefan J. Bos, Chief International Correspondent BosNewsLife
BUDAPEST, HUNGARY (BosNewsLife Columns)-- OK. Some 600,000 Hungarian Jews were massacred along with others the Nazis didn't like. Hungary's wartime leader Miklós Horthy knew this would happen when he allied the nation to Nazi-Germany. His noisy friend, Adolf Hitler, often promised the Holocaust as a Final Solution. "So what?", Hungary seems to think these days.