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The assembly of the Southern Diocese of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Hungary (ELCH) has finalized the list of nominees for the bishop’s seat.

"It is another variation of spreading fear of the 23 million Rumanians [possibly entering the Hungarian labour market after a bilateral agreement in 2002]", says Lutheran Bishop Tamás Fabiny to the Mandiner portal about the government consultation on immigration and terrorism which distressed him just as much as the "eye-wash" of Prime Minister Viktor Orbán elaborating on capital punishment. As the Bishop says, "believers mustn't stick to a status ten years ago and take in everything what a given party feeds them". Fabiny was taken aback by government politics lacking true consultation – or as he puts it, the steam-roller. Read our interview here.