“ONE-GOD” BELIEVERS

Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 433, 14 May 1937, Page 5

“ONE-GOD” BELIEVERS

Hungary’s Many Sects Budapest, May 5. The number of persons belonging to small or uncommon religious sects is stated to have greatly increased in the past year or two, though in 1930 only 21,000 persons belonged to these sects. Baptists, Nazarenes, Unitarians, Methodists and Adventists are not found in Hungary in any great number; but new sects have appeared in recent years, such as Exorcers, Fasters, Shakers, Sabbartarians, Anabaptists and the Waiters-for-the-end-of-the -world. During the past several months much has been heard about the Pagan One-God Believers, who practise real and invented rites belonging to the ancient pagan religion of Hungary. In Budapest a good deal of propaganda for this religion was carried on. but since the leaders came into collision with the authorities because of blasphemy their activity is now less evident. Besides Budapest, the chief centres for the new sects, Christian and pagan, are the great plain and the banks of the Tisza. As the peasants are naturally religious, and the outlying farms are some distance from a church, preachers of new religions have no difficult task to convert them,