Cross-semester farewell party

2022.03.24.

The Secretariat of State for the Aid of Persecuted Christians and the Hungary Helps Program organized a cross-semester farewell festive party for scholarship holders of Scholarship for Christian Young People (SYCP) on February 18, 2022 in the Reformed church of the Budahegyvidék Parish. The event was organized to celebrate the accomplished goals of the five-year scholarship.



The SCYP scholarship helps Christian young people, living in minority status in regions, where they have no chance of gaining access to higher education due to their religion. So far, 402 foreign students have participated in the scholarship program; 126 of these ones had graduated and earned undergraduate and graduate degrees between 2017 and 2022, and an additional 55 students are expected to graduate in the spring semester of the academic year 2021/22.


About 60 students (graduates and freshmen) from Budapest and its surroundings took part in the event. Danial Dilan and Jabbour Hala, two ITK students of Pázmány Péter Catholic University, who graduated this year and last year, received the diploma at the ceremony from the Good Deeds Ambassador of Hungary Helps Anita Herczegh (Hungary's First Lady) and State Secretary Azbej Tristan, as well as Balázs Fürjes, the district political candidate. The SCYP scholarship-holders took an active part in the festive program themselves, performing African and Afro-American religious songs in solo and quartet. The Saint Ephraim Men's Choir performed Béla Bartók's Choral Work „An Evening at the Szekelys" and Aboun D'bashmayo's „Our Father" in Aramaic, as well as the Zulu song „Woza meli wami", which was well received by the audience of diverse Christian background, denomination and countries.

 

 

 

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